Video: Elliptical Machine Exercise Tips

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Elliptical workout machines focus on leg muscles and the lower body, including the quads, calf muscles and hamstrings. Better understand this workout machine with these tips from an experienced personal trainer in this free video on fitness and exercises.

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Hi this is Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life here in Wilmington, North Carolina here to tell you a little bit about and identify the muscles that are being used while working out on the elliptical. The elliptical really focuses on primarily our leg muscles or our lower body. For the most part the muscles that are being engaged are our quads, our gastrocs or our calf muscles, our soleus which is the muscle that runs just behind our legs, below our calves are our gastrocnemius, our hamstrings which are the back part of our thigh and then our gluts, our glutmaximum and our glutinee which runs across the top. Depending on the level of intensity the resistance or the incline and all these sorts of things we can focus more on some of the muscle groups more than others but it is going to depend on the program that you are running. If it is an interval program or if it is a manual program, whatever the case may be, whatever the program is can identify certain muscle groups within the lower body more than others. Some elliptical machines are also equipped with the gliding handles. I am sure we have all seen some of those, that is going to help us get in a little bit more of an upper body work out some of our arms and chest and a little bit of back. But for the most part most of the ellipticals that you will find are similar to the ones that are right here behind me, they have handles on either side and it is just the foot pedals there but the elliptical is great for your gluts, back of your hamstrings, and your quads and your gastrocs. It is a wonderful lower body work out and a great cardio work out and those are the muscles that the elliptical uses.

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Elliptical Machine Exercise Tips

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