Hey everybody, it's Doctor Jo, and it's product review time again. The folks at Cubii sent
me their smart, under-desk elliptical. Let's get started.
So what makes this elliptical
so cool? It's smart! You can connect it to your phone through bluetooth, and it has an
app. Which is so fun because you can compete with your friends, or your co-workers, and
if you're like me, just a little bit competitive, it motivates you to work throughout the day.
I really like this elliptical, I'm gonna start going, as you can see, my knees aren't coming
up very high. And this is a good thing because if I'm at a desk working throughout the day,
if I had something like a stepper, or a bicycle that was brining my knees up high, I'm gonna
hit the top of the desk. So this makes it really nice cause you don't have to adjust
anything. Cause as we know, if you're working at a desk, you want the desk height to be
at a certain hight so then you have good posture. So this makes you not have to change anything
out. You can just put it under your desk ad start going. It's also really nice cause it
has 8 different resistance settings. So you can start off at the beginning of the day
harder if you want, and then maybe take it down a little bit, or build yourself up to
it. So it's really nice that way. It's also very smooth. It's not jerky so you don't feel
like you have, you know, push your body, or contort your body in different ways to make
it move so you can still have that very good posture while you're working out. You can
also put your foot in different positions and work out different muscles in the leg.
So if you're higher up, you're gonna use your heels a little more, and if you're lower down,
you're gonna use you toes a little more cause you're pushing that way. So you can change
it up throughout the day with that as well. Or you can just kind of have it in the middle
and work a little bit of both. And you can also go backwards to get an even different
workout. So this is a little awkward for some people, but again, you're moving those muscles
in a different way and you're working them in a different way. So you can do it either
way. I can feel those muscles starting to warm up a little bit, so I definitely know
that I'm getting a workout and doing something. With the app that it has, you can challenge
your friends, but what it also does, id it keeps track of your calories, your strides,
your miles, and your time. And it also has the battery up here that shows you how much
charge you have on your bluetooth. And it also has a cord so you just plug it up into
the wall when you need to charge it again, but I've been using it for a while and it
hasn't even gone down much at all, so that's pretty cool it lasts for a really long time.
And then here, you just say what resistance setting you're on. So right now I'm just doing
a little 2, nothing too big, but you can change it how you want to so it can keep track accurately
for you. What I like down here is it's not super heavy, you can still pick it up with
one hand, but it has enough weight to it that it's not gonna slide around. And that's really
nice cause, again, you don't want to have to worry about pushing it in a certain way
so it doesn't slide. Once you set it down, it's gonna stay in one spot. It was also really
nice cause when it came in the box, the only thing that you have to do is put the peddles
on, and it took me less than 5 minutes to put them on, and it even comes with its own
screwdriver and screws, so you don't have to have any extra equipment to put it together.
It also comes with these things which are pretty neat because you put them underneath
you wheels if you have wheels on your chair, and then your chair doesn't slide when you're
pushing on it. So they kind of thought of everything. It's really nice to have everything
that you need all in one box. As you can see here, this is where you change the resistance,
so you just turn it. That's the 1 and then it goes 2, all the way up to 8. So it's pretty
easy to change those resistances. So this isn't just for general exercise. It's great
for general exercise, but I really like it, too, because it's good for therapy. The smoothness
of the motion is really good, let's say you had a surgery, a knee surgery and ankle surgery,
a hip surgery. This is a nice smooth motion to get you going. Let's say you're not quite
ready to get up doing standing, big standing exercises. A lot of times I hear patients
say, well you know it hurts when I get up to move around. Well this is great cause you
can still get that exercise, movement, motion that you need, but you can just sit in a chair,
sit on your couch and do this and you're getting great motion here. You can see that I'm getting
that bend in my knee, I'm getting movement in my hips, I'm getting that movement in my
ankles. So it's a great therapy workout as well, not just a general workout. You can
do it all with this. And all you couch potatoes out there, you have no more excuses. You can
set this up right at your couch and watch TV if you want to, so you can't tell me that
you don't want to do anything cause you don't want to get off the couch cause now you can
exercise while you're on the couch. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments
section. If you'd like to find out more about the product, you can go to mycubii.com If
you're interested in purchasing the product, you can go to AskDoctorJo.com/cubii and that's
with 2 "i". So remember, be safe, have fun, and I hope you feel better soon.