Life Fitness 95xi Elliptical Crosstrainer

by Life Fitness

Product Features

• Best Selling, Full Featured, Total body Workout with 26 workout programs!
• Console design conforms to allow users to read magazines during a workout!
• Life Pulse and Polar Heart Rate Telemetry.
• Personal Trainer Customizable Workouts
• Hill Plus interval workouts!

Product Description

Our best-selling, fully featured, total-body Great Product provides 26 motivating workout programs and a premium, upper-and lower-level console with numeric keypad. Console design allows users to read a magazine and program workouts at the same time. Addit * Life pulse and Polar telemetry heart rate monitoring systems * Upper and lower-level console display with integrated reading rack * Personal Trainer customizable workouts * On-the-fly programming * Hill Plus interval workouts * Customized cool do

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 84.8 x 26.5 x 64 inches ; 286 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 500 pounds
• ASIN: B00166RAIC
• Item model number: 95xi
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #431,465 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Machine, Half Decent Support, April 4, 2007

By 

Deep Roy (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

Overall, I think the 95Xi is a terrific bargin. I got mine two years ago and lost 70 lbs AND now I have a V02 max that would allow me to run in a marathon. I also bike, indoor row on a ConceptII rower; weight train on a total trainer; balance on a BOSU trainer, stretch with weighted bars; and walk a lot.

However, the 95Xi is central to my exercise since ones aerobic capacity opens up doors that you can run through (trademark).

The only shortcoming of the 95Xi was the company's support. They wouldn't help me because the dealer was responsible and I'm still wondering about a "slipping clutch sound" that the dealer hasn't addressed yet. LifeFitness: feel free to post contact information if you have the answer to this question!

I got my 95Xi very early on and the dealer had to upgrade parts that wore out and that was a little frustrating since the replacement wasn't proactive. For example, I had to have the stabilizers replaced 3 times but now they seem perfect since Life Fitness now makes them stronger. I also had some plastic parts replaced since Life Fitness tried to use a single screw to hold them on and, therefore, they could be easily "bumped off."

I also wish that, as a premium machine, it had the computer interface that my ConceptII rower has: that machine lets me look historically at all my workouts and only cost $1000.00.

However, despite these oddities, I lost 70 lbs and have an awesome aerobic capacity. During the past two years, I've used it for 282 hours or about 23 minutes per day. That far excedes the time I spent with any other piece of equipment.

The reason why I like the 95Xi so much is that it's more like a treadmill than a stair stepper. Their residential models and every one of their competitors seem to be closer to stair steppers since the elliptical motion seems hoppy and choppy. The 95Xi, on the other hand, has a very smooth, elliptical rotation that makes me think I'm walking on air and doing the moon dance.

Overall, I recommend the 95XI hands down.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE!, August 16, 2011

By 

Peter G "Musicjunkie" (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life Fitness 95xi Elliptical Crosstrainer (Misc.)

These units contain a manufacturer's design defect!!!!

I am a health club owner who used to own 15 of these ellipticals. This was an investment of over $50,000 in equipment. They were sold to me by Life Fitness as their top-of-the-line model at the time. Later, Life Fitness admitted to me that they contained a manufacturer's defect. The drive is not designed correctly and eventually get out of balance and basically shake to pieces w/ use. I replaced all but 4 of these things before the warranty even ran out (2 years). These pieces should last for at least 5 years. (the other 4 have since been replaced as well. One was so bad that the frame ended up bent, as described by the Life Fitness technician!)

My Life Fitness sales rep tried to do the right thing at the time & wrote a proposal to replace all 15 of them w/ the lower level model which did not have the same design problems. The Vice President of sales at Life Fitness refused to approve the signed proposal, thereby screwing me and every other independent gym owner who trusted Life Fitness and bought this model. Nice way to treat your customers Life Fitness! I will NEVER buy another Life Fitness elliptical for as long as I live! I will only buy ellipticals from Precor from now on!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The wife is happy, February 13, 2009

By 

Ron (Holland, MI United States) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Life Fitness 95xi Elliptical Crosstrainer (Misc.)

After using this machine at a fitness center, we ordered this identical machine. Minor cosmetic flaws but in good shape for a used machine. I have never used it but my bride is very happy with the machine. I had a few questions and the vendor was prompt and helpful even after the purchase.