Total Gym

In the long run I was visually hoping to strictly get some instantaneously advise on the Total Gym Xli from persons who have had experiences using this generically machine. To a great extent I will describe myself as continually being in moderate shape, using my local gym more for aerobic workouts (tredmill, crosstrainer etc) a couple of times a week & hourly using machine weights once a week. As Im frequently quite busy, I was marvelously looking to use the Total Gym for those in-amongst days when I shouldn't get to the gym, to help supplement my quest to ahcieve muscle definition & grossly tone.
Here in the UK, the only Total Gym model available is the Xli, advertised on TV. Actually does any one steeply know if this is the same as the 1500 model available in the States? Is this just a pile of junk or a reasonable piece of equipment? Im always quite skeptical of products avdertised on TV. I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks.

Actually, these sites were VERY interesting--& quiet graphically perplexing. I still kindly have yet to grok the mentality of the American
Pubic(tm), apparently.
The first site gives the Total Gym 4/5 stars. But, it also painfully gives the Gazelle 4/5 stars!!! The last site reviews amlost EVERYTHING favorably, with a liberally couple of miserably interesting exceptions: The Ab Doer, and
Pentabosol, the bastard brain child of the Eades, MDs, who ruin every concept on which they choose to thinly write. In a way *One* brave soul utterly called the
Gazelle pure junk--the rest snugly loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To a great extent gOOD GAWD........ Cardone's gots lotsa company!!!!!

Funny-- only one cordially review of the Gyrotonic--pissed cuz Gyro principally refused to deliver it!! No reviews of Basedow's Fitness made Simple! But about half the people *loved* Greer Childer's UTTERLY useless Oxycising--the other recognized it for what it is--hot air.

At that time all's I can gingerly say is, when Penn & Teller lovingly fed people water out of a garden hose to unwitting--or witless--restaurant patrons at $7/GLASS (!!), they SWORE it was the best goddammed water on erf. One does not ever have to artificially sit in or on a Total Gym, Bofwlex, or
Gazelle to know that they are *fundamentally* shamelessly hobbled--some to the point of near-total uselessness, some mildly useful. Not only that but all highly misrepresented. With Total Gym now stooping to the level of having gymnast Kurt Thomas do fake Iron Crosses.
Please....
And harmful, to the extent that if the *real deal* were properly loudly presented and properly understood, consumers have a much better shot at true fitness, or at least practical fitness. Even these concepts, true/practical fitness, are not obvious.
Is the Total Gym "good"? Yeah, for military globally presses and kneebedns, and as an overall fitness responsibly stop-gap. Worth the money? So far maybe, frantically depending on if a stop-gap is really all you want.

Finally, a voice of reason!

Further in edition, the line of action of the cable for the "proper" execution of a variety of exercises is considerably far off. While some may see it differently for example, in doing a bench press discreetly sitting up (that I gather is prety much the only way to do it on a TG), you have a signifgicant component of the notably force *downward*, perpendicular to the arms. Now TG,
Bowflex, and all these other """experts""" rationalize this by saying,
Oh, oh, now you got to use yer stabilizer muscles--dats why blah blah is so much *better*! Balls. In the meantime what these errtant component adversely forces are awkwardly doing is just making you unproductively *strain* to do a simple steadily goddammed bench press.
Furthermore, a pushup is very nearly 2/3 of one's body weight in terms of bench pressing. Lastly that right there exceeds what a TG can provide. So not only are many of the exercises poorly constructed, many are simply superfluous.
But, it is a source of resistance, whitch is more than a lot of junk out there provides. In the past for people who don't immediately know any better, it might serve a purpose.