![]() ![]() Three weeks in, my jeans felt looser and I no longer ached after using the machine. Initially, I couldn't see any difference in my body, but after a couple of weeks other people started to make flattering comments. By the end of the first week, I could even eat my breakfast on it, while using the most gentle programme. You feel like you're working out, but you don't get sweaty, so you can do it in your make-up.Īfterwards, I felt a satisfying muscular ache, so I knew it was working. Once you've mastered how to stay upright using your muscles, it's quite easy to do the exercise routine of arm and leg movements. It meant I could indulge in multiple episodes of Desperate Housewives without feeling guilty. I used the machine twice a day while watching TV, so it didn't feel like a workout. My boyfriend thought I looked hilarious on it - he even tried riding pillion. I didn't have any great expectations of it.īut being game for a laugh, I thought I'd give it a go. It's quite big and unwieldy, although it looks nothing like a horse. My first reaction to the iJoyRide machine was to giggle. I have a very low boredom threshold when it comes to exercise, so I've never been able to keep up anything I've tried before - jogging, going to the gym - for more than two weeks. I wanted to get rid of what I call my "cupcake", the flab that pokes out over the top of my jeans. Polly says: I didn't need to lose weight but I did feel I needed to tone up - particularly around my stomach. Polly Bealby, 19, is a business studies student and lives with her parents in Muswell Hill, North London. My mother got so jealous of my changing shape that she started inviting herself round - not to see me, but to use the machine. I will carry on using the machine, and I hope that by the summer I'll be a slim size ten again. My next goal is to be able to wear a bikini again and to take the kids swimming without feeling self-conscious. I no longer feel I have to cover it with long jumpers and jackets. My cellulite has really improved, and best of all, my bottom has become really shapely, like a little heart. My stomach is almost back to the size it was before I had the kids. Soon I think I'll have to get it taken in. Two weeks later, when I put it on for another party, it was too big and I had to pin it to my bra to make it stay in place. I bought a size 12 black satin corset dress and felt fantastic in it. When I eventually went out to buy my party dress, I was thrilled to discover all the size 14s were too big. I think it was just my muscles tightening up. At one stage I was worried my thighs were actually getting bigger, but the tape measure told a different story. There's an exercise regime you can do on the iJoyRide too, moving your arms and legs to ensure you tone up all over.Īfter the first 15 minutes, I felt as if I'd done two hours' legwork in the gym and for the first week or so, I walked around like John Wayne. ![]() You can adjust the machine to go faster or slower, from a gentle trot to a gallop. You have to use your muscles to hold yourself up - just like riding. It does mean the machine can't be used by anyone with a back condition. The machine mimics the motion of a horse, so you can't just sit there. But using it was fun, particularly as I could sit on it in front of the TV. The iJoyRide machine looked like one of those rodeo machines you get at a fair - utterly ridiculous. That was the incentive I needed to try to get in shape. I'd virtually given up trying to get my figure back until I found out I had to wear a formal gown to a ball. As for dieting, when I went to one slimming club I put on weight because it made me think about food all the time, so I ate more than I had before. They made it difficult to fit into size 14 trousers, but a size 16 gaped at the waist.īeing a working mum with two young children made going to the gym almost impossible. I had a horrible fold of fat hanging over my Caesarean-scar and no amount of sit-ups made a difference. ![]() She is a secretary and is 5ft 4.5in tall.ĭanielle says: I used to be very slim - at 16, I was a size eight - but I put on five-and-a-half stone when I had children and I never managed to lose it all. The results are remarkable.ĭanielle Gerardo is 26 and lives in Kentish Town, North London, with her children Georgia, two, and Sonny, six. ![]() We persuaded four out-of-shape women to use the iJoyRide machine twice a day for 15 minutes as recommended, for eight weeks. The high-tech machine claims to give the same fitness benefits as riding, helping you to tone and condition your core muscles, and to improve your posture. Now, the latest home exercise craze from Japan - the iJoyRide machine - may mean we don't have to saddle up at all. As any riding aficionado knows, going for a trot can do wonders for a girl's figure, giving her toned legs, a shapely bottom and a flat stomach, as well as better circulation and reduced cellulite. ![]()
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