Eliptical Machine- resistance?

If it feels too easy and you want to go harder, but the resistance level. It will get harder to keep peddling the same same way you were at a lower resistance. I also like to play with the inline.

I have been using the elliptical for over a year, with good results. i do a program where it goes low for 2 minutes, than hard for two minutes. i usually have the hard setting on "10" which is a little difficult for me, and the light setting on "7" or " "8", and I repeat and repeat and repeat for 30-60 minutes until I burn the desired ammount of calories.

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I do 5 minutes at the lowest resistance, then 3 minutes at level 4 resistance, then 2 minutes at level 6 resistance and repeat until I think I might die.

Do you also adjust the incline?
Do you find that you burn more calories this way?

The ellipticals at the gym I use don't have the option for an incline. I have an orientation at another local gym tomorrow, if those have the option I'll probably play around with it.

When I first started going to the gym I would do an hour on the lowest resistance, I was a little bit sweaty at the end. I switched to the routine above on the advice of my brother (he is a gym instructor) and since I've been doing that I can manage between 40 and 50 minutes, I get very sweaty and sweat from places I didn't know I could sweat from! It is definitely working for me and works me much harder. For the last 20 or 30 seconds of each round at the highest resistance, I really push it and then recover back in low resistance.

Edit: Seems that the machines I have differ from the ones people are mentioning. Level 6 is the highest resistance level on the machine. So probably the equivalent of 12 or 13 on others.

I use a Precor and it has the option to adjust resistance and incline. I love having the option to play with both to work exactly which part of the legs I want etc.