Call it a wacky health and fitness trend or nonsense tech gadget if you want, but with a solid 4.5-star rating and nearly 1,300 reviews, this exercise machine might just be the perfect way to shakeup ...

It’s not every year, or decade even, that a brand new type of exercise equipment hits the market. The 1960s saw the rise of the treadmill, the 1980s had stair steppers, and elliptical trainers emerged ...

Abstract: The elliptical motion is proposed on a flapping hydrofoil for propulsion instead of the traditional two degrees of freedom motion, plunging/pitching motion. A synchronously periodic ...

The treadmill allows the person to walk or run on a moving belt. On an elliptical trainer, a person places the feet on the platform and moves in an ellipse or elongated circle. Both the elliptical and ...

American fitness company Octane, maker of an inventive seated elliptical trainer that lets you work your arms and legs simultaneously, just unveiled the LateralX (LX8000), which allows vertical ...

Tired of dull workouts? These top-rated cross-trainers make home fitness fun and effective, perfect for daily motivation and achieving your results.

Alex Hutchinson draws on the latest research to answer your fitness and workout questions in this biweekly column on the science of sport. More than 23 million Americans used elliptical trainers in ...

The elliptical is gaining on the venerable treadmill in the race to be the No. 1 cardiovascular machine in the nation, with sales of $687 million in 2008 as compared with the treadmill’s $870 million, ...

More than 23 million Americans used elliptical trainers in 2007, according to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association - triple the number that used them in 2000. Canadians have also eagerly ...