We've long championed the benefits of the best elliptical machines. These excellent home workout solutions are a great way to incorporate a total-body low-impact cardio workout, with the handles helping you lose weight on your arms while the stepping aspect helps tone your calves, quads, glutes and core. It's a great home fitness solution for anyone with a little home space.
Want one for less? The ever-reliable Schwinn 411 elliptical machine, with its unique compact design, is now available from Walmart at $499, a discount of $100.
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Why get this elliptical machine deal?
The Schwinn 411 can tone your muscles as well as help you lose weight, with 16 levels of variable resistance allowing you to dial the challenge up or down. Wireless heart rate tracking allows you to get a more accurate measure of your workouts, and the slender, compact unit comes with both moving and fixed padded handlebars with contact grips, so you can use one or the other to switch from a total-body workout to legs-only.
Elliptical machines provide one of the best cardio workouts you can get on a gym machines, blowing treadmills and other equipment out of the water: in the scientific journal Gait Posture, elliptical users registered greater muscle activity in the quads, hamstrings and other muscle groups than overground walking, treadmill walking and exercise bikes.
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