Proform Elliptical Machine Review

Icon health and fitness is the largest fitness company in America and Europe combined. Proform is a product of Icon that is primarily sold at large fitness outlets and big box stores like Sears and Sams Club.

Icon is also big on bells and whistles; a perfect example is their iFit technology an interactive program that controls your workouts with various challenges. Icon elliptical trainers typically range between $300 and $1,000. They also make ellipticals for several other companies.

ProForm CrossOver Elliptical Strength Trainer - In this model, ProForm has created an all in one package by combining a high-intensity cardio workout with a hardcore muscle-building workout. The CrossOver Elliptical Trainer gives you sixty-five total body exercises. Reviews indicate this is one of the best possible ellipticals on the market.

What sets Icon's ProForm Elliptical Trainer as the leader of the pack is the ability to create an cheap machine that looks like a million bucks, and you can bet dollars to doughnuts that you won't find any plastic on these babies. After all, Icon is know for pulling out all the stops. The big "cha-ching" factor with the company's elliptical trainer is their incorporation of the iFit technology. An interactive program that allows the consumer to take the reigns over their workout through the completion of multiple challenges and obstacle courses-sort of like the computer chip's answer to a really pushy personal trainer. The ProForm Elliptical Trainer offers a cut and dry warranty of just ninety days for service, and an additional ninety days for parts, but there's always the option of an extended warranty.

Keep motivated by using the Proform Elliptical Trainers LCD screen which informs you of your progress. The Proforms LCD console provides feedback of speed, time, distance, and calories burned and this helps to keeps you on schedule with your fitness goals.

ProForm Elliptical reviews by Consumer Reports were marked overwhelmingly "average" With regard to the 1080S ProForm, CR cited an incident in which the machine arrived in their lab with a "defective resistance mechanism" that could not be reversed. The company complained of receiving a second test model with a the same problem. Consumer Reports' ProForm Elliptical review also took note of faulty hand-grip heart-rate sensor offered as attachments with trainers.