New Years Resolutions

I challenge you to wear a heart rate monitor and verify the calories it reports burned as opposed to the Gazelle's data.

Don't worry. If bragging, narcissism, or self-worship burn calories, you'll never be far from skinny.

I wonder how many calories trolling burns?

Chris,
The Gazelle is simply designed to 'swing' your legs… In other words it DOES NOT WORK (as others have mentioned).
I can't believe you haven't already researched this before your purchase of it. As a serious student of fitness, you should be utilizing weight resistance, eating good food, and try the ab lounge a bit more… Make sure you're doing it correctly.
Your buddy Matthew in L.A.

chris, you rock. the vid is great!

I was reading the reviews over at the amazon link you posted a few days ago and they weren't so flattering. I'm torn. I'm also fat. Torn and fat. I'm sad now. I'm going to go eat something.

I own a gazzelle, an ab lounge and a treadmill by nordic track. My favorite is the treadmill it has air conditioning and can go for a great run in doors anytime. I easily burn 400-600 calories an hour working out. I also have a stationary bicycle. Lost 60lbs in a year last year

The Gazelle Elite (all they sell as of 18 months ago when I bought mine) includes adjustable shock absorbers that provide the resistance needed for a decent workout. Without shocks you're just swinging your legs in the air and it is very difficult to get an EFFICIENT workout.

complicated?? what's so complicated about lifting something relatively heavy for three sets of ten repetitions and then moving on to another exercise?
it's a fact that resistance training for 45 minutes, which helps you build calorie-burning lean tissue, torches more calories over a 24 hour period than 60 minutes of steady cardio does.
it's another fact that the 'calories burned' readouts on cardio equipment are a bunch of hooha. it's a guesstimate, at best, that's determined by some logarithmic calculation based on weight and current motor output. it has no way to know how much lean mass you carry or what your VO2 max is, which are both needed to calculate calorie expenditure.
it's also a fact that the human body is a highly adaptable machine. performing the same exercise day after day is a sure bet to trigger the adaptive response, and there will come a time when your body will adapt to the stress that the gazelle provides. in addition to staving off the adaptive response, exercise variety helps keep you motivated, too. do the gazelle on mondays and thursdays. skip rope at a moderate pace for 15 minutes (which is equal to a 30-45 minute run) on tuesdays and fridays. and go for a vigorous out-and-back bike ride for an hour on wednesdays and saturdays. then one month later, switch 'em up and/or add new exercises. finally, add weight lifting to your exercise program to really turbocharge things.
people avoid a gym at all costs. that's a big mistake.

I think everyone is missing the point here. If you get your heart rate up to to right levels you will lose weight and get in better shape. It does not matter the the machine so much as the the effort. I have a gazelle and use it in the winter when bike riding is not possible. I can tell you that if you follow the exercise that is included you will get the results you are looking for and it will be low impact and far better that running on a sidwalk. I agree that some wiehgt training needs to be included because the metabolism changes will last longer then just cardio but the truth is you need both. So does it work that is the question? Yes, in my case it does because if you find your effective heart rate for excise and you hop on the Gazelle and you sustain that heart rate for at least 20 mins you will get in better shape. To much time is wasted on what type of machine when the focus should be what will get my heart rate up. pick the machine that best fits your livivng space and one you will be happy to get on then make it work you out. I think Chris has the right idea put it in a room where you can watch TV or listen to music to help past the time. Pick and excercise machine that you can stand being on daily and diet you can live with forever because once you make those changes you need to keep them. I picked the gazelle becaue it is easy on my knees and can be packed out of the way between workouts. But i recommend in the summer to mix it up a bit and take walks and bike riding Just my 2 cents.by the way I lost 35 pounds using the gazelle and mixing it with the south beach diet.

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I have used the Gazelle before, and I used to be on it for 30-40 minutes a day and along with a changed diet I saw no results, so we sold the machine. I recently bought the ab lounge 2 and with the same diet changes I have lost 20 pounds. All the Gazelle does is swing your legs, you’re better off on a treadmill. I thought the Gazelle was a waste of money.

Yes ive seen awesome results with using the gazelle so much that my wife went out and bought here own gazelle, from just doing gazelle 45 minutes a day every other day and no other exercise program i went from a 250lbs to 205lbs in just 3 months… so dont listen to all of those gazelle haters who just try to push there program on you, the gazelle will do the trick im even starting to get tone from it also..