Maintenance. "Release" assembled and tested a new apparatus of gymnastics and musculation in residence. Sweated guaranteed.
The elliptic one, for complexed pad
By Matthieu ECOIFFIER

Saturday March 13, 2004

"I L remains to you still six months before giving a shirt", ensured in January a poster for a rock the chocolate. Except that time quickly passes to nibble in front of the tele one. As the beach approaches, the anguish of the handle of love (at the man) and of the coated thigh goes up (at the woman). "Our customers who are, one will say, in" ponderal overload "inevitably do not want to face the glance of the others in room. For complexed pad, the sport in residence is the solution. It is a heavy tendency ", explains Renaud Grout, the chairman of Icon Health and Fitness, connects French number 1 world. A verifiable tendency since Friday with the world Show of the body fitness in Paris (1). Between 1996 and 2002, the market of the home fitness passed from 45 to 83 million euros. "the 15-25 years use the benches and the presses to have bars of chocolate and to be made touch the buttocks by their girlfriends. Between 25 and 35 years, one is monopolized by his work and the children, and one makes escalator or of elliptic at home. Then, more one ages, more the concern passes on the cardio and health, one is tortured less."

Kit. Question tortures, to mount the apparatus at home on the third floor is already sport. 54 kg of cast iron in parts very spare in a paperboard. Two weeks of recovery to contemplate the paperboard in the corridor are then necessary to the level of the lumbar ones. It is then necessary to carry out the assembly using the handbook in eight languages printed in Clouded (and also translated from Chinese, apparently). "Attach the amount of extension using three bolts of M10 X 27 mm", reads there one. Especially, "do not tighten too the series of bolts, the leg of the handlebar must be able to swivel freely". And "made attention not grip the wire groupings", blockheads (in fact, three journalists of Release ). At side, to assemble a kitchen in kit is a play of child. After two hours of efforts finally the machine emerges. "the elliptic one is the product star, in particular at the women. It is one mix between the race with foot and the ski touring. You like the Earth are outstanding made an ellipse around the Sun. Its movements are soft with the knees. And it is supercompact ", ensures the manufacturer. Once unfolded, the elliptic one is very... present. Difficult to be unaware of the machine which measures you. And to hope to discreetly garage it in a wall cupboard, unless having a dressingroom of 30 m2. Is this the last easy way there to avoid with the apparatuses of home fitness finishing their life in coat rack or a tutor on the balcony? "the exercise bike in the wall cupboard? It was ten years ago ", ensures Renaud Grout. The machines are increasingly large, plus "pro". And more expensive: 499 euros for the elliptic one. "Fortunately that some leave them in their wall cupboard. These apparatuses are professionnalisent but are not configured for an intensive use ", specifies Richard, salesman with Sport 2000 of Montargis (Seine-et-Marne).

Rate/rhythm. To avoid the effect wall cupboard, the marks (Pro-form, Care, Reebok) deploy treasures of imagination. One can connect the apparatus on a video tape recorder, a reader CD or an Internet site. And it is put automatically at the rate/rhythm of the collective course. "You can also contact a coach on Internet. As it is still on the other side of the Atlantic that one sells some more, it will be an American. If you have a webcam, it can look at you and intimate you the order to go down from elliptic to make ten pumps ", indicates Grout. The idea to become the remote slave of certain Rick, body-buildé of Salt Lake City, could allure. Still English should be spoken. Us here thus only vis-a-vis the elliptic one. With, as coach, the last disc of Madonna, a large specialist in aerobics. Its pacer program should be chosen : the 4 proposes some hills and two turns. It left. Indeed, the ellipse occurs. There is the impression to walk on insane Escalator, the hands fixed on soft branches. The rate/rhythm accelerates. As adrenalin goes up, the elliptic one becomes epileptic. After 20 minutes, bingo, 40 conceited person lost calories! announce screen LCD. "I amndt not religious, goal I feel so good", howls the Madonna. Too much to last good?

(1) Until March 14 with the Floral garden of Paris-Vincennes.

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