I have never used one of these machines before. Is it like going up steps and moving your arms up and down??

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Mary

No.

I tried some out at a store a couple years back but opted for a recumbant bike instead. I think the arms could go back & forth like you are skiing, or you could just hold on to the bars. The legs go more like an oval. One comes up & moves forward while the other is going down and back. Like a bicycle, only you are standing, and there is resistance. The cheaper ones - I got motion sick on them. The ones that have a better glide (your body not going up and down so much) I didn't get sick on, but they were far more expensive.

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It's more like running, but the footholds move in an "elliptical" shape as you move, so there isn't the impact of running.

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