Arm Bicycle Machine?

Ripgirl

Hello All!

There is a new machine now at the gym that is like cycling, except you turn the cranks with your arms. No idea what it's called (on the actual machine is says 'excite') and can't see anything in the database that sounds similar.

any ideas? Or anyone who has used this, have you found a comparable calorie-burn exercise to log this as?

Thanks!!

Flannel

yeah we have the exact same machine at my gym.

to be honest I can't find many of the machines on here to track my exercise so i just class things as stationary bike, elliptical trainer and running :ohwell:

daisyvidal

I've used this machine before while working out with a personal trainer. She would put me on it at a very high resistance to work out my arms/and for some cardio in between weight training. I have to say, we didn't use that machine very much though, it was usually when it was peak hours at the gym and the other cardio machines were busy.

Ripgirl

I have some issues with my hands and am now very limited for arm exercises - holding weights is becoming very difficult/painful but I really need some serious arm toning. My hands seem ok on this machine so I'm going to try incorporating it into my workouts and see if I get some results.

Flannel - I did the same thing first time I used it, just logged it as elliptical.

Thanks, Gals!