A couple of nights ago I was flicking through the TV channels and stopped on one of the shopping channels because the show had health or fitness in the title so I thought I would have a look. If Eastenders had a sports day theme in the storyline I would probably record it!
On show at the time was a product called the i Joy Ride (everyone wants to put ‘i’ in their product title these days. Maybe I should start being known as the i Fat Loss Personal Trainer?) which is on sale at the bargain price of £399.
This reminded me of a story a while back with one of my clients when she was looking for good pieces of equipment to help in her bid to lose weight and get fit.
Against my advice she went and bought one, only to find that it didn’t provide all that she had hoped for and is now being used as a place to put the washing. You almost cannot see it for all the clothes that lie over it.
What is not uncommon about this story is that there are hundreds of other people right now looking for “the product” that will do more of the work for them or that their is a product out there, better than any other that will make you leaner and fitter in 6 months time.
The best tool you have is actually in your house or at the office already and that is your own body.
In posts like this one I will normally go along the route of taking said piece of equipment apart but I’m not going to do that this time because this product doesn’t actually promise something over and above what it delivers for a change.
Many products will actually lie and say they promote fat loss and get you in shape but I cannot see that the i Joy Ride does this. All it says is that it works to tone the ab and thigh muscles and makes no mention that it promotes fat loss.How could it when it only works a few isolated muscles?
What I don’t like about the product is the expense in relation to the amount of exercise that you can do with it. That and the fact it does not promote fat loss which is what most of you are searching for in the first place.
On top of that I feel like I have to make a point that there are no shortcuts but that effective exercise can promote very quick results, they just come with a price of having to work a bit harder than getting rocked around in your living room while watching Eastenders.
Personally, I want a program that is more challenging and also promotes more benefits to my all round health and fitness than simply “toning up” a few isolated muscles.
So if you want to spend £400 to get rocked around like you’re on a horse go and get one.
But if you want to tone up the same muscles and lose fat at the same time so that you can show your new shape off, get used to performing exercises with your own bodyweight that deliver even better results and can still be done in the convenience of your own home.
While the machine will get easier and easier, bodyweight exercises can be changed to make them more intense so that you never get bored and never run out of programs that challenge you to get results throughout.
Keep it intense folks!
Mike
PS Get in touch if you want to try out an i Joy Ride and I’ll put you in touch with someone who will be selling one second hand soon I believe.
One Comment
I think i’ve seen this somewhere before…but it’s not bad at all