Elliptical Machines Don’t Work for Fat Loss
08. Mar, 2010 
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By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training
Just over a year ago I was in Tampa, Florida, at another fitness seminar.
Between sessions, a physician from Georgia stopped me in the hall and said, “Hey Craig, you were right about those crosstrainer machines. I’ve had your program for a few months now and I’m getting better results with metabolic resistance training.”
It’s always great to meet clients, and I was curious to find out how he heard of me. Turns out, he found me through Google, landing on an article I wrote about “how elliptical machines
(crosstrainers) suck for fat loss”.
That’s right, I think those crosstrainer-elliptical machine doohickeys are almost a complete waste of time.
“I was using one of those machines for a long time and wondering why I wasn’t getting any results,” the physician continued, “I’m so glad I found your program”, he added.
I told him how I wasn’t surprised.
In fact, I’ve never known anyone to get great results with one of those crosstrainer machines. Nope, it’s diet and metabolic resistance training that really gets people results.
Now I know some people will be angry with what I have to say because they like exercising on the crosstrainer, but the truth is that they just don’t work as well as metabolic resistance training.
To me, the crosstrainer is just the easy way out.
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I beg to differ, I used an elliptical to lose weight but i did change my eating habits and i did nothing but intervals on it and it worked for me but what i also did is i changed it up a bit , I went to elliptical one month then treadmill then running sprints outside and i didn’t just do one thing constantly so I think that’s y it worked for me but I do believe had I kept on with one machine I would have plateau but that’s my two cents.
Thanks for the comment Jesse and I think you make a good point. It sounds like you are continuing to push your body and not just stay in the same place.
I think what this article is really speaking out against is those people that go to the gym and do the same cardio machine at the same intensity day after day. With the wide variety of exercises that we can have available we should absolutely incorporate sprints and resistance training. Fantastic exercises. Doing them in a hard intensity interval circuit allow you to save time.
I run, bike, and swim long miles because I like the endurance sports, but I also change things up quite a bit by doing a weight training session or fast pace intervals 1-2 times per week.