We finally bought this weird looking machine from Brookstone – the iGallop. The first time I saw it was right before 2006 Christmas. Two of them were standing at the store front. Sales folks were trying to get people to test it out. I thought it was really a cool machine, but at $499, I let it pass.
For months, I kept thinking about the machine. I went online and tried to find users’ reviews. Most of them said the machine would not work because you could not loose inches by sitting on a machine and letting it do all the work for you. But they didn’t use it at all. So I went back to the Brookstone store in the mall and tried it. I sat on the machine and followed the work out video for 5 minutes. I was sweating like a horse. I really had to focus and keep my balance on that thing while trying to follow all the twisting and turning motions the friendly but yet demanding work out instructor on the DVD asked me to.
I still didn’t buy it because I just could not persuade myself giving away $499. I wish I were Paris Hilton then, so I could walk in the store, point my finger at the machine hinting that I am interested, buy 100 of them and place them in all the different rooms in my mansion. I can work on my thigh and butt anytime anywhere I want without getting out of my mansion.
Yesterday, we were on our way to Abercrombie and Fitch to find a baseball cap. We passed the Brookstone store again. Of course, I just had to walk in to look at the iGallop machine I so very much wanted to get. $199!!! I bent down to look at the price tag once more as it was conveniently placed on the floor. Indeed. It was $199. We looked at each other. Our hearts were racing. This is just too tempting.
The sales lady came over. She knew we wanted it. She could feel it. Before she could say anything about how great the deal was, I was all too ready to give her my credit card and sign the sales draft and snatch the machine.
I am now the proud owner of iGallop. I did the warm up and the beginner work out program yesterday and today. It was fun. Maybe next time when I write the follow up review, I am looking like one of those gorgeous magazine models on the grocery check out counters.
Update: Review II in now available.
October 9th, 2007 - 9:12 pm
[...] last iGallop review was on 7/12/07 when I purchased the product. It’s been a little bit over a month and a half since I started [...]
October 10th, 2007 - 8:19 pm
[...] if I don’t do iGallop for a day. I just weighed myself yesterday. I lost 12 pounds since I started on 7/12/07.  My stomach looks much flatter and better [...]
January 25th, 2011 - 10:02 am
I just acquired a used igallop, and cannot find the instructional DVD anywhere, for love nor money. Can you give a brief description of the exercises? Just sitting on the thing definitely works my thighs, but I’d like to get the most possible out of it.