Best Home Elliptical Machine Reviews
Ellipticals & Elliptical Bikes Expert
In-depth home elliptical machine reviews of popular models and brands help you compare trainers to make an informed decision.
Each of my elliptical reviews is categorized by manufacturer and contains the following information: resistance type, number of workouts, stride length, special features and benefits, heart rate monitor type and my exclusive in-depth review and rating.
If you’re in a hurry and want to skip the machine reviews, go to my Bes Ellipticals for Home page where I reveal my recommendations for every budget and price range, from cheap ellipticals to high end club quality machines.
Elliptigo Review Notes: What do you get when you cross an elliptical machine and an exercise bike? You get an elliptical bike, or, more specifically you get an Elliptigo. The Elliptigo is the brainchild of Brent Teal a mechanical engineer by trade and his Triathlon training buddy Bryan Pate. After suffering nagging training injuries Pate [...]
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Who makes the best ellipticals for the home market? What are the best elliptical machines for 2011? The answers to these questions is, it depends on what you need out of your machine. Let me explain precisely what I’m talking about here. It used to be that elliptical trainers came in one flavor — rear drive machines [...]
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Yowza Fitness has become pretty well known for designing some really nice mide-level rear drive elliptical machines and then decided to take their two light commercial ellipticals in a new direction. In my Yowza Sanibel Elliptical review I’ll be going over some of the key differences between the Sanibel elliptical and will compare it to [...]
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I have been waiting to do my Livestrong LS8.0e Elliptical review until I got a chance to get on one of these highly rated ellipticals in person and give it a good run-through. I had that chance last week on a few of their cross trainers so please enjoy my Livestrong LS8.0e, LS10.0e and the [...]
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OK, if you’ve followed my website and blog over the years you’ll know that I’ve been recommending the Smooth 3.0 elliptical for some time. So what do I think of the new Smooth CE 3.6 model you ask? I think the 3.6 elliptical is a nice, and worthy, upgrade over the 3.0 for a number [...]
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With the Spirit 455 elliptical, we’re finally getting up to the big leagues of ellipticals I would actually consider owning. For starters, the 455 has a club quality 20″ stride length that will comfortably accommodate users from 5′-4″ to about 6′-4″ (sounds an awfully lot like me and my wifes heights). In addition to the [...]
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If you haven’t seen the Tony Little Commercial about his new Tony Little Gazelle you must be living under a rock, either that or you go to bed before 11:00 p.m. and aren’t up early on weekend mornings. With all the hype and buzz surrounding this elliptical over the last several years, there have been [...]
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True has made a name for itself in the treadmill market, but has been a little behind the curve with their elliptical trainer line. The new True elliptical looks to change all that, and to make an impact in the commercial market that’s currently dominated by Cybex, Precor and Life Fitness. The new True TSX [...]
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Making an bargain basement machine like the Stamina Elliptical Trainer should be outlawed. It would be like selling a car that only goes 10 miles an hour and won’t last more than 1 year – oh yeah, they did that already, it was called a Yugo… The folly of shoppers who buy a Stamina Elliptical [...]
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The Sole E95 Elliptical is the club level version elliptical trainer in the Sole model lineup that also includes the Sole e25 elliptical, and the Sole e35 elliptical trainer. When Sole introduced the e95 elliptical trainer to the market, they hit the ball out of the park. There’s no other elliptical trainer under $2000 that [...]
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