Consumers Should Exercise Caution On Fitness Machine Claims, Expert Says

More about how the fitness industry lies to you.

"Many exercise equipment advertisers make bold claims about their products' benefits - claims that should be taken with a grain of salt, according to an expert in the September/October issue of a journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.

David Swain, Ph.D., FACSM, says if an assertion sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

'There is still no 'miracle machine' that will give you the body of a fitness model in just a few minutes per day,' Swain said."

Wrote about this years ago - here is an example.