Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Putting this together…well it’s easy if you’re mechanically inclined, probably have it together within 10 minutes; unless you’re like me when staring at the diagram and putting 2 and 2 together turns it into much longer. Regardless, you shouldn't need expert set up. Why I bought this? My hips, butt and thighs have taken over and spread like a virus. Doing squats on my own hurt my knees and the popping was awful. I’m sure my form was horrid, so before I totally messed my knees up I stopped. I have a treadmill but my feet hurt after walking. I’m a mess and needed something to intervene and strengthen muscles. So I am the furthest thing from being fit. Day 1: I used it without bands, lasted just under 5 minutes before I was feeling it. No clue how many I did as the counter isn’t reliable...it counts as you move or jostle it and then I noticed it skip by 2’s periodically. So I ignore the counter. Then later on in the day I decided to use it again, stupid me put 1 band on out of curiosity, about killed myself...remember not physically fit girl here. Day 2: Well my knees and feet don’t hurt at all. The top of my thighs, however, are mad at me. Just sitting in the chair/getting back up again is extremely uncomfortable. Using the bathroom…was my toilet always that low? I decided to take the day off and not push my luck and fully cripple myself. Day 3: Well, the top of my thighs still hurt. It’s like my body enjoys being a potato, but my mind and my clothes do not. Nevertheless, I did get on it and do some. Day 4: Little discomfort, back on I go. I did notice I have a bruise on my bum…odd, but okay. It doesn’t hurt and I can’t remember if I bumped into something or what so not overly concerned. Anyway, this is the last daily update until day 30, otherwise this would be even more redundant. Fast forward...from day 5 on I had attached one band and didn’t have any debilitating issues from it like when I first began and started using 2 bands after almost a month. I found that for me leaving it sit in the middle of the floor and periodically getting on it, doing 20 at a time, worked best since after 20 I’d go do chores or whatever, come back, etc. I do over 100 accumulative squats in one day with this method. I did not use this 7 days a week, instead anywhere from 4-5 days a week depending on what was going on. I find this machine has really helped me be able to exercise and that’s what I was looking for. I wish I had taken tape measurements on day 1 to compare, but I didn’t. All I do know is clothes are fitting looser and I don’t feel like I’m going to split my pants when I go to sit down lol. I did create a side-by-side picture of my rear one month apart. It wasn’t spectacular to begin with and still needs quite a bit of work, but doesn’t look quite as “wide”, so there’s that. I really debated doing this, but one gal did and that actually helped me to decide, but she started out smallish (compared to me) so I decided to exploit myself to try and maybe help others with a visual. This won't give magical results overnight, but at least I’m headed in the right direction.