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Best Elliptical 2014 - Top Choices For Your Home

Author: West Glenda
by West Glenda
Posted: Jan 16, 2015

Looking for the best elliptical for your home? Want to get more from your workouts?

You're not alone - this is the most popular time of year when people set new goals and seek to get healthier overall.

There are several brand new innovations in crosstrainers that will help you get a better bang for your exercise buck.

Today's crosstrainers are a huge improvement over older machines from years ago. They are built with a more natural feeling stride and more ways to fight fat.

So if you're looking for the top trainers this year that give you more, here are 3 options to consider:

#1 The Max

This is a new hybrid elliptical manufactured by Bowflex. It's actually a cross between an elliptical and a stair climber - with added arm bars for upper body toning.

The main benefit is that you can burn up to 2.5 times the calories of other fitness equipment like a treadmill, stair stepper or crosstrainer.

The Max Trainer was also shown in the lab to engage up to 80% more muscles - including your arms - than other machines. So you're getting some great upper body toning as well.

And it's also great for people who don't have a lot of time. According to the manufacturers, you can get great results just by working out on the Max for only 14 minutes a day.

This trainer comes complete with a 14 minute high intensity interval training program that will guide you through your workout to burn maximum calories

#2 Freestride Machine

This is a new type of elliptical from Nordictrack that improves on an old elliptical problem - a set stride length (which can suit one user in the home but not another).

Another issue is that a set stride can sometimes fail to work your leg muscles to the full extent. And this can hurt your calorie-burning results.

Instead of running in a set stride as you do with many machines, the Freestride Trainer is built so that you choose and set your own stride. You can actually get strides of up to 38 inches (You usually only get up to 21 inches on a standard crosstrainer!

It's an adaptable machine that you can fit to your body - not the other way around.

You can also choose different strides throughout your workout (there is no getting on and off the trainer to change the stride).

So you can do up-and-down stair-stepping motions, light jogging strides or even long, heavy running strides.

This really changes the game as your body will never adapt to one set motion (and thus get better at burning calories). So you're always challenging your system - and burning maximum fat.

Another great thing about the Freestrider is that the impact is almost nothing on this trainer. So if you're prone to shin splints or knee problems, you can still get a great workout without aggravating the problem.

#3 "Smart" Ellipticals

Yowza recently developed some trainers with what they call an "intelligent weight management" system. You get a crosstrainer that comes with a "smart" scale included.

The intelligent scale works together with the crosstrainer to keep you at your target weight.

So if you step on the scale before your workout and you've gone up slightly, the scale will communicate to the trainer. The trainer will then automatically increase your workout intensity to account for that extra increase in weight.

While this smart scale-elliptical combo might not be ideal for everyone - if you're looking for a way to stay on track with your weight loss goals, these trainers may be worth a second look.

To sum up those are 3 of the best home elliptical options that take your body to a new level - and in less time.

There's really never been a better time to invest in a top quality workout machine for your home - you'll see results fast and can workout on your own schedule.

Want to learn more? Watch a video of the Bowflex Max (with added coupon code) by Clicking Here

Or Learn more about the Freestride Trainer by Watching This Video

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Hi folks I am West Glenda from California and I love sharing informative articles. Please stay tune for more valuable tips and advice on different matters.

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