First of all, you have to work on it for hours to notice anything because there are no hydraulics to give you a real workout. You have to go and go for about an hour if you're used to an elliptical machine.
I did like that I finally got some calf muscles, BUT the overall foot pain I recently had got worse after using this machine. It aggravated my plantar fasciitis and then I found out I have a minor bone spur on the ball of my right foot when I went to a podiatrist after starting to use this. If you have foot pain, do not get any glider! I spoke to a podiatrist yesterday about the pain I've been experiencing and found it was directly related to the glider. He explained the muscles will pull going from the underside of the foot, all across the arch, up through the ball of the foot, and all the way up towards the calf muscles. So when you build your calf muscle, you also pull that entire muscle group from the foot, building up the calf as you go. The doctor said 70% of bone spurs do not cause pain, but since this machine pulls that entire muscle group taut, it pulls it right into my tiny bone spur, causing immense pain. He said ellipticals are much better. I have to sell this machine now, unfortunately. So I repeat, do not get this machine if you have any type of foot pain because it will make it worse. Get an elliptical machine because it doesn't focus so much on this group of muscles. Get more detail about Gazelle Edge.
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