Featuring a comfortable and natural stride, the Best Fitness E1 center drive elliptical trainer offers patented technology that ensures the shape of the ellipse is biomechanically correct. This means the machine moves in the same natural motion as your body does, providing a true running feel. Inferior designs can have either too much vertical movement or too much horizontal movement; those units will often make the user feel off-balanced while exercising. The E1, however, will keep you in a balanced upright position for a stable and secure feel.
The E1 also has a balanced steel frame which eliminates rocking while maintaining a compact footprint, which makes it ideal for your home workout area (particularly when space is a concern). Combined with its durable components, the steel frame supports users up to 275 pounds while the unit's front transport wheels make it easy to move around. Proper pedal spacing on this elliptical eliminates hip fatigue--when your feet are forced out too wide or in too narrow, your body will incur undue strain on your hips. The E1 also offers a comfortable step-up height to allow you to start your workouts safely while its moving arms recruit your upper body and core to the workout, making this a total body trainer.
The E1 offers a compact footprint that's ideal for smaller spaces. |
To track your workout metrics, the E1 offers contact heart rate handles for advanced monitoring. Additionally, the console offers feedback such as time, distance, speed, and calories so you can can track your workout, push yourself to the next level, and help accomplish your fitness goals. With 17 levels of smooth resistance, this trainer will challenge everyone from beginners to seasoned fitness gurus while 12 unique fitness programs offer variety to keep your workouts fresh and challenging.
E1 Features and Specifications: - Balanced powder-coated steel frame with low center of gravity prevents rocking for safety and stability
- Features a patented center drive design
- 17 resistance levels offer an effective challenge
- Contact heart rate monitoring for measuring exertion levels
- 12 unique workout programs conveniently adjust settings
- Blue backlit LCD with white letters offers high visibility
- Comfortable 21-inch stride length
- Works the upper and lower body simultaneously
- Easy step-up height
- Pedals spaced closely together to help decrease hip fatigue
- Low pedal placement for easy access
- Compact and portable design for easy transport and storage
- User Weight Capacity: 275 pounds
- Product Dimensions: 48 by 30 by 66 inches (L x W x H)
- Product Weight: 215 pounds
- Some assembly required
Manufacturer's Warranty Frame--15 years, motor--10 years, electronics and parts--2 years, wear parts--6 months, labor--1 year
The E1's console tracks your time, distance, speed, and calories while proper pedal spacing eliminates hip fatigue. |
About Best Fitness Best Fitness is a member of the Body-Solid, Inc. family of products, a leading manufacturer and distributor of high quality
fitness equipment for the home and commercial markets. With over 20 years of experience, Body-Solid offers a wide array of products in the industry including multi-station gyms, free weight machines, a complete line of cardiovascular products, weight plates, kettle bells, dumbbells, and fitness accessories.
Originally founded in 1989, Body-Solid has grown from its original 10,000 square foot warehouse to an over 200,000 square foot distribution facility and worldwide head quarters, based just outside Chicago in Forest Park, Illinois. The company sells its products in the United States, Canada, and over 100 other countries worldwide. Body-Solid’s dedication to quality craftsmanship, customer service, and value has enabled it to develop a premier reputation within the
fitness equipment industry. In particular, the company is known for its industry leading in-home lifetime warranty and its strong commercial warranties.
The majority of Body-Solid’s products are made in an ISO-9000 certified facility to exacting quality and performance specifications defined by the company. Body-Solid is recognized as a premier supplier of
fitness equipment to the home fitness market with products for all your workout needs. Having high quality
fitness equipment that best suits your needs is an important element in keeping you focused on your goals. Body-Solid products are engineered to accommodate your fitness level, your goals, and your lifestyle.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
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Our elliptical trainer arrived in a large cardboard box, that needed two people to move it. We had it delivered in our garage and carried the pieces down to the basement and assembled it there. The only difficult part of this was the base, which also needed to people to move - it's heavy and awkward. The box contained Styrofoam which was marked for recycling, and all the plastic bags were clearly marked with recycling symbols. I give them good marks for making recycling easier.
Assembly was extremely easy. The directions were fairly clear and the parts needed for each of the assembly steps was individually packed, see my photo. Some parts are left or right oriented and those are clearly marked with L or R stickers. It also came with all the tools needed for assembly. I put it together in about an hour. NOTE: I needed to tighten some of the nuts after we'd used the machine for 3 weeks. I noticed this after the elliptical was noisy to use, normally it's extremely quiet.
One hint, it's not clear where to plug in the power line. It goes into a small socket near the base of the left hand side, see the attached photo.
There are two roller wheel at the front of the unit and a large bar to the back, so in theory you can stash it when not in use and pull it out to use it.
When not in use it's 51" long and 30" wide. When in use, it's needs a length clearance of 68".
The power drive a large very readable and bright display. It shows the type of circuit you're using below very large digits that cycle between: workout time; speed; distance (miles); calories; pulse rate; and watts. The display powers off automatically, and then switches on when you get on the treadmill and take a step or two. So it's very energy efficient.
Programming the display is not obvious, and it's not explained well in the owner's manual. If you want to use one of the 12 program patterns shown follow these directions.
1. Power on the unit.
2. Press the Up arrow until the bottom of the display reads PROG.
3. Press the Mode button.
4. Press the Up or Down arrow to choose P01 to P12, for one of the patterns printed below the display.
5. Press the Mode button.
6. Choose the effort level with the Up or Down arrows.
7. Press the Mode button.
8. Use the up arrow to set the number of minutes you want to workout for.
9. Press the Start/Stop button and get going!
Because there's no motors in this unit, it's fairly quiet to operate with little clicking noises as you move. I can easily use it to walk forwards and backwards, and I can increase or decrease the levels while exercising. At the lowest level, I can go from 1 to 8. If you grip the small handles, your pulse rate is displayed after a few seconds.
Overall I've found using it is very smooth, it's not as bulky as a professional gym unit but it feels very solid. After we'd been using it for a week, I did use the tools to check the bolts and screws were all tight, a few of them had loosened slightly.
I have a two minor gripes: the hill display doesn't move, it's the same whether you do 10 minutes or 30 minutes; with program 3, for example, you always get four peaks with the time divided equally between the four sections. The other gripe is the placement of the water bottle holder. It's on the frame under where one of the big handles moves by. Trying to get it while you're using the elliptical is awkward, I wish they'd placed it on the step below the display.
We also have a good treadmill, but since the elliptical arrived it's been the machine that everyone in the family is using, including the kids.
