Total Gym ?

Has any body used one?
what type of equipment do you use or recommend?
I am looking at getting one for the house on days I don't have time to run to the gym.

I have hands and wrists that are easily aggravated because of so much transcription, and the total gym (the way the handles stress my parts) just aggravates it.  For days I do not gym it, I have TurboJam DVDs that I love, or I just lift or do bodyweight stuff, squats, lunges, pushups, triceps dips, et cetera.

But - one thing I DO have to say, our total gym has a pin in it that holds it at different inclines, MAKE SURE ITS ALL THE WAY IN EVERY SINGLE TIME!!

My husband was working out, had it inclined up and also on a step up bench for more incline, had not checked the pin obviously in while and it came undone and folded up and cracked his skull!

The amusing part was when we went to the emergency room, it seemed that everyone was leary about his explanation that it was the total gym that cracked his head open, and even the Emergency Room doctor joked that he oughta listen to me better.  Which was funny, except I felt bad in case there really was a man there who had a wife who beat on him, because that would not have been funny to him!

At any rate, my husband loves it, it hurts my hands/wrists/elbows, but CHECK THE PIN!! EVERY TIME!!

 Cracked his skull????  That is simply terrifying.


(FWIW, decades ago I slashed open my pinky while cutting a potato.  I was pregnant at the time.  Husband rushed me to emergency room, where I was asked a bajillion times how it had happened -- apparently, spousal abuse is more common than we may think, and they wanted to make sure my husband had not done this to me!!!  

Why has this dangerous product NOT been recalled?!?!

I do medical transcription and yea, spousal abuse abounds, and my job is probably the main reason I had sensitivity to the male spousal thing. 

The dangerous product has probably not been recalled because SOMEWHERE in the instructions it PROBABLY says to check the pin, every time.

Probably.  :} I do not know though, because, well, I am not the instruction reader in this family.  I just fiddle with stuff until it works, or the instruction reader has finished reading, but usually by the time he is through, I already know how to work it.  Whatever it is.  :} 

Thanks for the info, if we do decide to go with it I will definitly check the pins.

My husband was working out, had it inclined up and also on a step up bench for more incline  Don't forget to keep it on a flat surface too.  I don't have one but perhaps I would if I had the space. 

I dropped my gym membership recently since I was there primarily to use the eliptical.  I run h210k indoors (no treadmill); do high intensity interval training; free weights; strength bands calibrated to pound equivalents; etc. 

Between dvd's, streaming video, and on line work outs I really don't need the gym.  I am planning to eventually get an eliptical and a recumbant bike. 

I have a Bowflex that I really like but you do need some room for it. Mine is taking up the dining room space. This year we decorated it for Christmas, our Bowflex tree was quite a hit! If you want a good strength training workout it does the trick.