ellipticals

I know a person who insists that elliptical are a great arm exercise. I beg to differ. I tried to tell this person that ellipticals are machines that are meant to work out your legs, like running up stairs or running in general. But this stubborn person keeps trying to tell me that she gets good arm workouts from her elliptical and that it really does workout your arms as much as you legs.

So, finally, we decided to look it up to see who was right. So I googled it and the websites I went to said that ellipticals were good for legs joints and ankles. It said nothing whatsoever about ellipticals providing arm workouts. So she decided that I used a biased search and she decided to type in the words “elliptical arm workout”. After clicking on the first website, she expected to find something that would prove that ellipticals did work out your arms. Instead what we found was a website with 3 sentences, none of them talking about arm workouts. So we checked out other websites with the word arm highlighted and bolded. Ironically, these websites were all about “good” ellipticals without any arm support; they were recommending that people use these types.

So then after all of this, the most that she was willing to admit was that ellipticals worked out MORE lower body that upper body, but she was still so obstinate that she would not admit that I was right and she was wrong. Until this day, she still believes that she is right.