Chair Gym Blue

Because this chair simply rocks! However, don't believe the athletes you see using the chair in the advertising; people with bulging muscles and girdle tight bodies. You're not gonna get that kind of results on this chair alone, but what you will get is a convenient and comfortable exercise system that'll definitely get and keep you remarkably stronger. And if you're eating properly, you'll loose weight. It comes with a collection of different workouts that's all 20 minutes each, except for one that's 40 minutes and includes some low impact aerobics. All of the workouts are awesome, and I'm madly in love with this chair and use it everyday except Sunday. In my opinion, there's not a better way to help you to commit to regular exercise for the rest of your life than this chair. Though there's a tradeoff in the deal. And a really bad one to boot. Namely, it's the Chair Gym company itself. You're not gonna like doing business with them. They have a really great product but incredibly shoddy management marketing and selling it for them. First off, their website doesn't fulfill orders, you hit the click button to pay now and nothing happens, which makes it appear to be a bogus setup out to get your credit card information, which isn't the case. You can't order thru their website because they don't have the product on hand and don't tell you that. So you have to figure out for yourself to call them and get hung up on a few times before getting thru to a live operator, and even then you have to ask them if they have the product, which is only when they'll tell you it's on back order. And I've found complaints from people who said they been waiting for several months so far, and still, no chair. But luckily for me, I got one from Amazon, that i received in two days on Prime Time, which came directly from the company. So if you call them, they don't have it, but you can get it from them thru Amazon? Does that make any sense? Okay, so since I got mine from Amazon, it didn't come with the collection of DVD's. It came with only a setup and introductory video, which is a 10 minute workout joke, and with a workout chart that you're not gonna follow. So doing the 10 minute joke introductory workout, I realized that it's a great system and just needed some workouts for the chair, so I decided to buy some workouts from the Resistance Chair System, which is the same as Chair Gym but much more expensive. And just as I about to make the plunge and buy some of the other chair workouts, I went to my mailbox and bam! All of the Chair Gym workouts was sent to me by mail by surprise. But then they sent two sets. So I was saved by the bell from spending more money on Resistance Chair workouts to use with my Chair Gym. So these people advertise a deal on TV and invite you to their website, but it's on backorder, but if you get it from another merchant, it doesn't come with any workouts and they send them to you by surprise. And then to put the cherry on the cake, the workout videos invite you again to their website to buy more stuff for your chair, that's also a no show. You can't order anything at all, not even the chair itself from their website, so what are they inviting us to come and do what we can't for? Still not confused enough? Well don't bother. I've read some people's complaints about the company sending them multiple chairs. LOL! But all in all, my experience wasn't all that bad because I got mine thru Amazon. But you can't get anymore thru Amazon now. Or at least you couldn't the last time I checked. So I recommend this chair as a must have, and it's unfortunate that the company is on crack, so try to get it from another merchant. Try Walmart or Fingerhut or something. If you can get it from somebody else, you won't go thru any hassles with the company, but just wait a few days and then check your mailbox for the DVD's that's supposed to come with it to begin with. But I might call the company to order the chair's advanced bands. The bands that comes with it works great, but once somebody gets real stronger, especially a man, they'll need some stronger resistance, and Chair Gym has more advanced bands, but you'll have to deal with the company to get them, and they'll likely send you multiple sets of it. But I still say this is a magnificent chair. A must have to help get and keep you in shape.

I used to be a real sports freak, training 4h a day. My favourite was weight training. Then as life started encroaching into my life I stopped training. I am overweight and out of shape. Living on a swamp makes exercising outside a nightmare, 90F/32C and 70-80% humidity is not my idea of fun. So after watching the infomersial, I came here to read reviews. It's a lot of money to spend, but it turned out to be perfect for me. I have divided my exercise into upper body and lower body, and do each every other day. I do 15 reps with 30 second break between, and 3 series. I do this while watching TV, so it's easy to get through. I know the exercises by now, as well, I repeat them a lot ;) I put on a 1h show because they last approximately 42 minutes without commercials. This gives me enough time to complete my exercise. It is giving me a good workout. My muscles burn, I sweat and have increased breathing, all things one expect from exercises. I am still using the lower settings, as I am going at this the proper way. I've got another set of handles and different type of leg straps, because that makes it easier to do my workout. I've got the recommended twister as well. It probably works well, but so far I haven't used it. I like this chair, as it's helping me back to better health.

The best thing about this product, if you use it, is that it gets you started exercising in our own environment. There is no feeling embarrassed about going to the gym, and you can work at your own pace and level (the bands can be adjusted for tension). It is portable enough to move around to different rooms. For example I work from home sometimes and need to listen in on conference calls so I can do some exercise while I listen in my office. Other times I move it to the room I watch TV and do exercises while watching - understand this is not aerobics, but resistance, so watching TV works in this case. I also used the materials provided with the product, not so much the DVD, but most certainly the guide to the 50+ exercises you can do with this product. And this is very good material. It allows you create an exercise routine and then change it up after a month or so on one level. And if you are so incliined you can track what you are doing and create different exercise routines when you need it. I have not experienced the issues some others have with the cables and such, so maybe I am lucky! But this does seem to be an issue. On this I have done dome research and parts seems to be available and you can by the parts needed when needed. So if you are looking into starting an exercise program after being away from exercise for a while for many reasons, and progressive is in your needs (i.e. setting the resistance bands), and that leads to healthier exercise and such, this is a great start and is more than a reasonable price over gym memberships or doing nothing! You do this in the comfort of your own home, wherever or whenever you can in your own home and you are doing something other than just sitting. So this is all about that. Good luck everyone and I hope this review helps.

The chair gym is great! I love that it doesn’t take up much space and better yet, that I can be seated while exercising. It’s super motivating to see senior citizens among the participants on the exercise videos. If they can do the exercise, then I can keep going! That’s not to say the exercises are easy. Even the lightest band can be a challenge when placed on the bottom chair attachment. The seat is pretty comfortable but I haven’t sat in it for more than an hour. Overall, I like it. It’s nice to have a video to follow for strength training that revolves around using a chair and includes everything I need. It’s cool that the twister seat was included. It’s not fully assembled but close and not difficult to finish assembling.

This is a wonderful, easy to store, light weight, and compact means of exercise. It can be used in a T-shaped space; no wider than the span of your arms and no longer than the length of your legs. I purchased the Chair Gym, because I had gone through physical therapy for a frozen left shoulder. A year later my right shoulder started to freeze in place; I no longer had the option of physical therapy. The Chair Gym has removed all signs of frozen shoulder for me, has helped me gain strength throughout my extremities and has improved my range of motion. I also purchased the optional Chair Gym twister seat. I am past fifty years old and have always been easily bored by exercise. I have found; alternating and performing almost all the exercises, with only four repetitions, is my key to not becoming bored and stopping. It would have been helpful if the exercise book had been produced in a smaller size, with one exercise per page. Bound in a perforated form, so I could remove only the exercises I wanted. The pages could then be placed on a large ring; in the order I used them. Once I learn an exercise, all I need is a quick, flip view, of each exercise as it comes up in my personalized program. (Yes, I created my own flip book.) In order to alternate between upper and lower, arm exercises, it was necessary to purchase an additional set of resistance band handles; which included ankle straps as well. Thereby removing the need to change the band handles from upper to lower and back again, repeatedly. Once I complete the arm exercises, I then swap out the lower band handles for the ankle straps and complete all the leg exercises. Based on other reviews, I purchased my Chair Gym from the Seller “Emsom” and experienced no problems with delivery.

When this first came, I loved it. I'm close to 70 and this enabled me to safely do resistance work without risk of falling since my balance is sometimes off. Sadly, after only a few uses, one of the bands snapped right out of the plastic handle while doing a simple exercise. I figured that, things happen, and I submitted a request through the Chair Gym website Customer Service for repair or the replacement part. I received an email acknowledging my submission asking for photos and a copy of my receipt. I submitted all, and they responded stating they received them and asked for my address. This was about 5 weeks ago. Since then, I have sent several emails asking if they were going to replace the part since it is under warranty. No response. I called customer service twice and was told they would send a request "over" so someone could get back to me. Nope. Never happened. After weeks, I am now returning it to Amazon before my window of time to be able to return it ends. This is a great concept and it really seemed like a good purchase. It's the company's lack of customer service that is alarming. If you purchase, just hope nothing goes wrong after your allotted return time. Thank goodness Amazon has a good return policy, or I'd be hesitant to order something this large and costly in the future.

I could feel old age creeping up on me and it was slowing me down in every way. Decided to give this a try, and I don't regret it. I've had this for about a week or two, and I am easing myself into working out again. so i am currently only doing the 15 minute workout. But in a week or so, as I get the kinks worked out, i will begin doing the longer workouts. I have recommended this to family members. I hope they get it to help them too. I am 63, and this has not been hard to do. Plus it folds up and out of the way in a second.

Chair is exactly what I was looking for with low impact weight bearing. Not sure about ankle Velcro tho, seems useless as it comes loose and another handle may have been more helpful but nonetheless it can be used in a lot of other ways where that isn’t an issue. Def recommend for seniors or person prone to hurting while exercising.