What to look for when choosing an ellipsoid for your home?

As you already know, the most popular cardio exercise machine for home and, accordingly, for your homework on your body, according to our editors, is Orbitrek. Or, as it is otherwise called: an elliptical trainer, or in common parlance an ellipsoid. Because this particular device is optimally suited in terms of size, price, and diversity of load, both on the cardio system of our body and on its muscles. Numerous studies and tests conducted by us, as well as billions in sales of this particular simulator around the world once again confirm our confidence in the correctness of this choice.

So, for our home use we buy an orbitrek. But here’s the question: what do you need to know to choose the right elliptical cardio machine, since there are simply a myriad of them on the sports equipment market now? What to look for when choosing an ellipsoid for your home? How to choose a good copy without overpaying? This is exactly what we will talk about in this short article...

What types of orbitreks are there?

1. Mechanical,
2. Based on an electromagnet.

Here, I think, everything is clear - you only need to take the second option. Because the first one is already quite obsolete and does not have proper load regulation. The second type of ellipsoids is free of all these disadvantages.

Another point that is worth paying close attention to is the athlete’s weight. Because this type of cardio equipment has a significant limitation on the maximum weight of the athlete working on it, and if this indicator is exceeded, the machine instantly fails. So be sure to weigh all the members of your family, find the heaviest one, plus add another 30 kilograms of reserve, and only after that select the device. This point applies specifically to budget options, which people mainly choose for their home, because the professional machines that modern gyms are equipped with have a huge margin of safety in this regard, but they also cost two or even three times more than budget home ones ...