Check out the blog article on our Quad-Modal Office Fitness DreamStation. Epilogueįor kicks, our review staff created what we imagine is the world’s first sit-stand-walk-pedal workstation. It might come across as extremely versatile in an infomercial, but with its standup feature out of the way, it’s a cheap, one-dimensional under desk elliptical machine and a ticking time bomb waiting to break. It seems designed to be a jack of all trades, and it tries to do too much. It doesn’t offer the smart phone connectivity and social features of the Cubii nor the quality engineering of the FitDesk.įrankly, it’s difficult to see this piece of equipment fitting into the office. When stacked up against competitors like the Cubii and the FitDesk, the Stamina InMotion Elliptical Trainer is clearly the cheap alternative. If you’re in the market for an under desk pedal unit and the elliptical trainers have caught your eye, whether for their ergonomics or the fact they fit better under your desk, or both, you’d be better served in the long term going with a higher quality product from the dozen units we reviewed. So, for our purposes, we don’t find the standup feature compelling. Regardless, with your hands and body moving in the elliptical motion, you’ll be hard-pressed to mouse and type, or even concentrate on your screen as your head bobs back and forth. The response that “it’s a core workout” might be true, but we’re thinking about using this equipment in the context of the office, and a full body workout is better done at the gym where you can grunt and sweat to your heart’s content. Plus, there’s nowhere to rest your hands, and that exacerbates the balancing issue. Users-especially taller ones-find the abbreviated motion frustrating compared to the full elliptical motion they find on equipment at the gym.Īdd to that the weak stability of the unit while standing, and balance becomes a big issue. Part of the issue is that the stride is abnormally short. But many user reviews on Amazon and third party sites are generally critical of this feature. There’s a couple other products on the market that offer this sit-stand feature, including the Elliptical Trainer’s close cousin, the Stamina InMotion Compact Strider, as well as the j/fit Under Desk Elliptical Trainer. One thing Stamina’s InMotion Elliptical Trainer can do over the Cubii and the FitDesk is double as a standing exercise machine.
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