If there’s one thing this world definitely doesn’t have a shortage of, it’s exercise equipment. So when we heard that there was a new home gym on the market, the Total Gym XLS, we were very skeptical. Is this home gym going to be like every other gym that’s sold at three in the morning on infomercials that does little more than gather dust in the corner of your bedroom? We were bound to find out. So we bought an XLS and we decided to give it a try. Here is what we discovered.
Body Toning
The Total XLS Gym promises to tone your body without needing a machine that takes up an entire room. And, in fact, the XLS is quite small as far as home gyms go. It’s only 90X19X43 inches and only weighs 83 pounds. But can the XLS live up to its promise that it can strengthen the major muscle groups in your body? How can something so small do all that? We jumped on the XLS to find out.
How it Works
Now, when you lay down on the XLS, you are going to use your own bodyweight as the resistance. You will lay on a single glide board and you will use a few attachments to lift a percentage of your body weight against gravity. This is meant to create a fluid and smooth resistance which is unlike a lot of the fitness machines out there
Once we got on the XLS, we were able to find that a lot of the exercises were actually hard to do. Even the ones we thought were going to be easy turned out to be more difficult than we had first thought. However, we did find that the XLS works on both the upper and the lower body and that we were definitely working up a sweat.
Apparently, the XLS has upgrades that the models before it did not have. This includes a new pulley and cable system, more comfortable padding and a new squat stand. Also, the glide board is now able to support up to four hundred pounds so it can be used by almost anyone.
What we Found
When we first tried out the XLS, we were under the impression that we were not going to be convinced that this machine could provide better results that the other machines out there that are similar in nature. However, we found that many of the exercises were indeed hard to do. So, does it really work? Well, we would have to use the XLS for an extended period of time to really know for sure but we were impressed.
There are many home gyms on the market, and some of them aren’t worth the cardboard they’re packed in. However, the XLS appears to be different than all the others. One thing’s for sure, we are anxious to see how our bodies improve after using the Total XLS Gym for a long period of time.
Bilal Hamdan helps with a Total Gym XLS Review Site that educates consumers about different types of XLS Total Gym and much more.
