Anyone Use Total Gym or Something Like It??

anewday
anewday Posts: 69 Member
edited September 19 in Fitness and Exercise
Hi, I was wondering if anyone uses the Total Gym or another piece of equipement. If you do, do you like it, would you recommend it, and have you gotten great results? Thanks so much for your imput.:happy:

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  • anewday
    anewday Posts: 69 Member
    Hi, I was wondering if anyone uses the Total Gym or another piece of equipement. If you do, do you like it, would you recommend it, and have you gotten great results? Thanks so much for your imput.:happy:
  • lizbeth787
    lizbeth787 Posts: 101 Member
    my mom bought a total gym about 10 years ago and used to use it a lot - now it just sits in our basement! haha - i use it from time to time and it has a lot of great exercises. Nice idea for when you're just watching tv!
  • anewday
    anewday Posts: 69 Member
    my mom bought a total gym about 10 years ago and used to use it a lot - now it just sits in our basement! haha - i use it from time to time and it has a lot of great exercises. Nice idea for when you're just watching tv!

    Thanks - I was just looking it up and I got it for 50% off, which is good. I hope I like it!!!:wink:
    I made myself feel better about a big purchase by asking my husband if he would want to use it too. LOL
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
    Is total gym the one chuck norris advertises? If so, I had a knockoff a few years ago, total trainer I think it was called. I liked it, it was fun. The total trainer may be easier to use, or maybe the newer ones are, but my version was a pain in the butt to set up! It was a workout in and of itself just to get it opened up and set up. I once had an apartment that I had a huge bedroom, so I was able to leave it set up all the time.....when I moved to a smaller apartment I kept it set up but in the hallway and had to trip over it everyday, I eventually kept it at my dad's in the basement, collecting dust until I sold it on craigslist!

    So it's not very convenient unless you have a real dedicated space for it. But even so, I didn't use it all that often. But then again, that was back when I worked out only sporadically....if I had one now where I work out on a regular basis, I might have used it more. All in all, it was a good machine WHEN I actually used it.
  • Iceprincessk25
    Iceprincessk25 Posts: 1,888 Member
    We actually use the Total Gym in our physical therapy clinic ALLLL the time. :happy:

    We use it A LOT for single and double leg squats as well as for some upper body work. I think it's pretty fun.
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