Variable Path Models

Picture this: you’ve just dragged yourself off the sofa on a grey Tuesday in November — because let’s face it, that run you planned has been rained off again — and you climb onto your cross trainer. Except this one doesn’t lock you into a rigid, metronome-like oval that makes your hips ache and your … Read more

Let’s be honest: most cross trainers are a bit like a fixed-route bus — efficient, reliable, and deeply, profoundly boring. You get on, you stride in the same elliptical arc for thirty minutes, you get off. Your knees know the pattern before your brain does. Which is precisely why the variable path elliptical has been … Read more

There’s a moment in every gym-goer’s life when the treadmill starts to feel like a punishment and the elliptical feels as intellectually stimulating as watching paint dry. Both do the job, technically. But neither is your machine — not really. Your stride is shorter or longer than the preset track demands. Your arms pump at … Read more