save your money

I purchased this when I was in the U.S. last October. After using it less than 6 times the remote no longer worked so you can't turn the belt off the manual function is useless & it only vibrates at the highest level. There is no warranty included with the manual & when browsing the web to see if there was a place where it could be repaired...it appears the manufacturing company in China has declared bankruptcy. I now have a very expensive vibrating paperweight so beware.More detail ...

Good

Just your generic standard-to-olympic adapter. Title is misleading since it can probably be used for any standard machine or bar. For example I am using it on BodySolid's leg attachment for GFID31. More detail ...

Good Value

I did quite a bit of research on whole body massagers and this one seemed to be the best value. It is well made quiet and I really have enjoyed it. A friend of mine bought a larger machine made by Crazy Fit but from a different company and even though she paid twice as much I found mine was very similar. I highly recommend this machine.More detail ...

Amazing portable workout gear

This product is amazing. I recently did 5 weeks of bootcamp and we used these resistance tubes every time for biceps chest back and shoulders. Its amazing how effective these are and all the time you are just using your body weight. You can make it as easy or as difficult as you want. I had to get them. The green one was a little too light for me and the blue one is a little too tight for a beginner woman. Best part is you can take this lightweight exercise gear anywhere you want and have a good muscle toning workout. Think you can google up the different exercises you can do with these. Plus for the price it is so cheap you dont even need to think twice. More detail ...

Amazing portable workout gear

This product is amazing. I recently did 5 weeks of bootcamp and we used these resistance tubes every time for biceps chest back and shoulders. Its amazing how effective these are and all the time you are just using your body weight. You can make it as easy or as difficult as you want. I had to get them. The green one was a little too light for me and the blue one is a little too tight for a beginner woman. Best part is you can take this lightweight exercise gear anywhere you want and have a good muscle toning workout. Think you can google up the different exercises you can do with these. Plus for the price it is so cheap you dont even need to think twice. More detail ...

Great Value

This is a great calf press. It is sturdy and works well. My only complaint is that it comes with standard weight posts and no adaptors for olympic plates (which is what are shown in the picture). I had to purchase those seperately. But for the price it is great.More detail ...

Pros and Cons

I just bought the Shake Weight at Wal-Mart for $19.95 in their As Seen On TV section to try it out. So far 9 out of 10 As Seen On TV items that I've bought have a been a joke. (Shoes Under was the only one I kept and even then I almost didn't because it was so flimsy.) I like to try out the product to see if it works and because it's Wal-Mart I have no problem returning it. I don't know how I'm going to do that with the Shake Weight because as far as I can see there's no way to test to see if it actually works. How long does it take to make my arms look better? (I think this is why there are virtually no reviews as yet people can't tell if it's working and they get tired of it before it's obvious that it is or isn't working.)



But here's what I've got so far:



"Feel the burn": It's true that your biceps do start to "burn" while you are using this product but I think that was from having them unnaturally clenched for 6 minutes straight while you shake yourself to death. (Yes this is how the product works your bicep muscles clench up and stay that way while you are doing this exercise.) I was always taught to do "reps" during strength training which allows the muscle to tense and rest every few seconds while you work it using resistance (i.e weights).



"It's a weight": No not really. It has a little bit of weight to it but there doesn't seem to be any resistance to this tool and it seems that 6 minutes of continuously having your tensed muscles shook would just hurt you (hence the "burn.") Not to mention that even if the product does work there's no way to add more weight to it and your muscles would quickly outgrow it. Then it's obsolete.



"Shaking": When did shaking fat to shrink it come back in style? Remember those old contraptions fat men in sweat shirts would be strapped into and it would shake their bellies in the hopes that it would make them smaller? There's a reason you don't see those anymore. They didn't work and they were dangerous.



"Dynamic Inertia": Go ahead Google it. You won't find it anywhere on the web unless it's in connection to the shake weight. When did a product get to coin new physics terminology? And exactly what does it mean?



"It looks silly and kinda perverted": The product doesn't claim this but almost everyone else does. The product does look like an elegant massage toy and face it you do look and feel silly shaking your arm fat everywhere. (Hey if you didn't have arm fat then you wouldn't be using it.) And perverted well there's even a spoof video on YouTube that is so R-rated that I refuse to discuss it further here.



Other reviews on the web: There are like 4 and I think they were all written by the people who make (or sell) the product. They have almost nothing negative to say about the Shake weight and one woman even claimed it made her boobs bigger. Yeah right.



And finally the Price: (This is maybe the only good thing about this item.) It seems as if the manufacturer can't agree on how much this thing should cost. Their infomercial lists it at a bargain at 19.99 plus shipping and handling (which I think is like another 7 or 8 bucks) and Wal-Mart has it simply for the 19.99. So what is up with their selling it on Amazon for almost double the price? Well it turns out that the the manufacturer isn't the one selling the item. jwwbooks4 is the company selling it through Amazon and I guess they're hoping to make a big profit. It's a little shady in my opinion.



Final Verdict: I guess I'm going to see if actually works. Hey I've got 90 days through Wal-Mart but I'm not going to hold my breath for results. If you do decide to try it go to Wal-Mart and save yourself the shipping and the handling through the infomercial or the extra 17 dollars they're charging through Amazon. Hey you do have the option to save yourself the headache altogether and don't bother to buy it at all. You can get a decent set of weights for about the same price.More detail ...