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Dirk Jan 2013 9:34pm, 2 Jan 2013 759 posts	Quote Pin Dirk I am looking at buying a cross training machine and have £3 - 400 pounds to spend. So Fetchies, can you help me out as I have seen plenty of bad reviews and not many good ones. So is it a good idea? What machines would you recommend or maybe just as important what machines wouldn't you buy? any advice appreciated......!
icklevee Jan 2013 1:36am, 3 Jan 2013 734 posts	Quote Pin icklevee Personally........none. Get a bike, or get a bike & rig up to a turbo for cross-training, rather than those eliptical things.
Dirk Jan 2013 1:36pm, 3 Jan 2013 761 posts	Quote Pin Dirk I have a bike. what's a turbo? is that what you do...?
geordiegirl Jan 2013 1:45pm, 3 Jan 2013 5,988 posts	Quote Pin geordiegirl I bought an elliptical total waste of money think I used it once maybe twice
Dirk Jan 2013 8:56am, 4 Jan 2013 762 posts	Quote Pin Dirk Why's that? Did it just not work for you or are they not as good as the ones at the Gym?
Old Croc Jan 2013 8:58am, 4 Jan 2013 22,823 posts	Quote Pin Old Croc second the turbo trainer option - especially if you already have the bike. Turbo is an indoor trainer for the bike - put your road bike onto turbo and you have an exercise bike type set up - but better
Dirk Jan 2013 4:11pm, 14 Jan 2013 765 posts	Quote Pin Dirk what kind of price? where do you get them from?
GerryO Jan 2013 4:24pm, 14 Jan 2013 741 posts	Quote Pin GerryO I hired an elliptical for three months- it was equivalent to the type you would find in a gym- and found it useful. The upper body conditioning that you get from it is worthwhile and at higher resistance settings it is very like hill work. Have you looked at rental options? I paid about £60-70 for four months in order, partly, to avoid the gym in the winter. It was nice to hand it back as by that time I was growing tired of it.
Old Croc Jan 2013 4:27pm, 14 Jan 2013 22,858 posts	Quote Pin Old Croc Dirk - turbo from £100 up over from any decent bike shop - local or on line.
Old Croc Jan 2013 4:29pm, 14 Jan 2013 22,859 posts	Quote Pin Old Croc wiggle.co.uk for example