I could never understand why people have the need to use a contraption to do some boring repetitive activity. Hell, do jumping jacks for an hour. You'll burn calories.
I have some overweight female coworkers in their late 30's early 40's that ask what did i do to get the way i look. Said this was not over nite but 11 yrs worth of working out in the gym.
If you don't want to join a gym, easiest thing to do is walk/jog everyday in your neighborhood or local mall. Walk up 4/5 floors of the office we are in during lunch for 15 minutes..... One of the reasons i join the gym is to get motivated when i see bigger guys than me and makes me work harder to outdo them. Also looking at the ladies in spandex is a big motivator!!
thats funny you say that, the one my girlfriends mom bought jsut sits in the corner of the room and I will try it jump on it as a joke every once in while, I cant even work that damn thing it is so goofy, I try to get it going and I almost fall off every time.
My father bought a Total Gym a few years back...you know the one with Chuck Norris (Texas Ranger) and Christie Brinkley pretending to like each other...
It just sits in the basement, althought it could be used for some interesting sex positions...so I was told.
That thing is JUNK!!!! I wouldn't buy a 50cc bottle of 200mg per cc Eq from Tony Little if he only wanted 5 bucks for it and it was buy one get one free!!!!!