Non-impact running on the Elliptigo

Remember this blog on the Elliptigo, “The Most Fun Cardio Machine Ever”? http://eastwindsor.patch.com/blog_posts/the-most-fun-cardio-machine-ever 

This spring, you may see me on the Elliptigo at these events.  Feel free to ask me about it, and if you’d like, we can set up a time for you to take it for a sample ride.

Bike to Work Week May 13-17 http://gmtma.org/pg-bike-to-work.php

Trenton Bike Tour May 18, 8:30 http://www.trentoncycling.org/2013-trenton-bike-tour/

Cranbury Drug Free Fair May 18, 1-4

West Windsor Bike Fest May 25, 8:30 http://westwindsorbikefest.com/

Tour de South Brunswick June 1, 8:30 http://www.edfoundationsb.org/TdSBReg/ride_reg_info.asp

ALS ExpressBike Ride June 15, Wildwood http://www.als-express.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1043898

Contact me at optimalexercise@comcast.net to set up a test ride.  As I wrote in the original blog:  

“My experience with test riders is about half get it right away. The other half, I have to catch before they crash. And there doesn’t seem to be a link with athleticism or being in shape, since some of those I caught were very athletic and in shape. I’d suggest trying it several times before deciding to buy, just to be sure. It is available online and from a few retailers.

I don’t sell the Elliptigo, nor am I involved in any kind of affiliate arrangement, but I do use it as part of the personal training through the studio. An Elliptigo workout session consists of a quick lesson in starting, and most important, stopping, and then the client uses the Elliptigo while I accompany him/her with a conventional bike on local, low-traffic, roads. Then, should the clients’ quads decide, “we don’t like this anymore”, we switch for the return trip.

So, for a change of pace, to give your knees a break, to see how all that work on the indoor elliptical translates to actual moving around, to get your cardio workout outside of the same four walls of the gym:  the Elliptigo.”