Fitness Equipment – Horizon Fitness EX22 Dual Action Elliptical Trainer

Horizon Fitness EX22 Dual Action Elliptical Trainer Offering fluid movement, four interval exercise programs, and eight resistance levels at the touch of a button, the Horizon EX22 Dual Action Elliptical Trainer is a health-smart choice for your home gym. This elliptical trainer comes specially equipped with unique, pivoting footpads designed to decrease stress on key joints while keeping your feet and legs in a natural position throughout the workout.

With eight resistance settings, this elliptical trainer is ready to take you on everything from a casual stroll or a strenuous work-out. The LCD screen makes it easy to see key metrics at a glance, and the contact heart-rate monitor in the hand grip lets you keep an eye on your vitals. The magnetic resistance and heavy-duty flywheel provide fluid starts and stops and extends the lifetime of your belt drive. The Horizon EX22 Elliptical Trainer is a high-quality exercise training machine built with quality materials and a reliable design. What’s more, it’s supported by an excellent warranty.

Feature Detail:

Pivoting footpads keep your feet and legs in a natural position throughout your workout

• Front-drive design for greater stability and accessibility
• Heavy-duty, 14-pound flywheel allows for fluid, quiet starts and stops
• Continuous velocity for consistent power
• Magnetic resistance is quiet and long-lasting
• Stacked flywheel design creates the smallest footprint and lowest user height in its class
• Low step-on height for comfort and ease of use
• A full 18-inch stride length provides a more natural movement
• Closely aligned pedals allow for natural movement and less stress on your knees, hips, and lower back
• Pivoting footpads keep your feet and legs in a natural position throughout your workout
• Large single LCD window for at-a-glance convenience during your workout
• Eight resistance levels at the touch of a button
• Four preset programs
• Contact heart rate in hand grips
• 250-pound maximum user weight capacity

About Elliptical Trainers
Elliptical trainers represent the next wave of advancement in low-impact cardiovascular exercise machines and continue to grow in popularity. By simulating motions experienced through walking, stepping, cycling, and skiing, elliptical machines allow for a smooth and fluid motion while building strength in the arms and legs. Similar to the exercise position for treadmills, elliptical trainers are used by standing in an upright position while holding the handrails of the machine. With elliptical trainers, however, your feet remain in the foot pedals throughout the exercise regimen and circulate in a smooth and seamless motion, resulting in little to no impact on the knees, back, and hips.

Elliptical trainers are compatible for all ages and fitness levels and allow you to select the difficulty level through the incline and intensity settings. Additionally, elliptical trainers allow you to determine the complexity of your workout based on your needs, all while listening to music, watching television, or reading a magazine while exercising in the comfort and safety of your own home.

Although different types of elliptical trainers offer an assortment of features, many of them include an array of challenging programs, forward and reverse directional movement, EKG grip pulse handles, a lightweight portable design with easy fold-up capability, and a monitor displaying calories burned, distance, speed, time, and heart rate. Other types of exercise machines, namely treadmills and bikes, offer excellent cardiovascular exercise and muscular training for the legs in a forward-motion exercise. Elliptical trainers take this to the next level by offering an upper and lower body workout with dual motion, challenging and diverse programs, and a low-impact exercise machine that won’t strain sensitive joints.

What’s in the Box?
Horizon EX22 Dual Action Elliptical Trainer, owner’s manual, warranty

Manufacturer Warranty
Frame – 10 years; brake – 7 years; parts and labor – 1 year

Customer Review: Poor quality
I felt very disappointed with this machine. For a product selling at $600, its quality is poor. We opened the box with excitement, but just to find that the 2 pieces of the plastic surface don’t even meet with each other in front of the machine. A big gap was there between the 2 pieces, looking like broken and so ugly. I tried to adjust it, but the metal frame supporting the plastic surface was not aligned itself and I couldn’t adjust that! The manufacturer can’t even make the most obvious and basic part of the machine well, how could I trust the quality of the machine overall. I won’t workout on it due to the concern of reliability and safety. I suggest that go for a better one even it’s more expensive, because safety is very important and product quality is a hint of how much safety it can give you.
Customer Review: Very Good Value
I was originally looking around at the “health club models” like Precor, but came to realize that I wasn’t going to spend 50 hours per week on my elliptical, so after reading up a bit, went with the Horizon EX22.

For those looking for tons of options, this probably isn’t the machine for you (maybe the 33 or 44 would be better), but I’m just looking to do one or two different programs for 30 minutes about 3 times per week. For the price, probably not a better value out there.