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Health, November
2007
Exercise Without End
by Brittani Tingle
We have what you’d call a love-hate
relationship with the treadmill - love the calorie burn; the
monotony, not so much. So when we found out that new takeoffs on the
treadmill were showing up at clubs like Bally Total Fitness and
Spectrum Athletic Clubs in California, we were skeptical. A climbing
wall that never allows you to get more than two feet off the ground?
A ladder to nowhere? A rope that you pull … and pull … and pull? How
much fun could that be? We dispatched staffers to find out. And
their reports have us wondering whether we should dump the treadmill
for good.
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Rope Pull
What it is: Much like the rope-climbing drill from grade school
gym class (except you never leave the ground), this piece of
equipment has you sit or kneel while pulling on a circulating length
of rope. Works various upper body muscles and burns about 650
calories an hour.
Tester’s take: “I want one for my living room! This gave me
an unbelievable upper-body workout and was surprisingly easy on my
shoulders.” |
