fitness

A Trikke vehicle gives you the carving edge

February 2, 2016
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What is a Trikke? It’s 2016 and some people are still asking the question. Are Trikkes body-powered vehicles or electric vehicles? Fitness vehicles or transportation vehicles? Commercial vehicles or personal vehicles? With so many different types of Trikke carving vehicles and a lineup of models that’s constantly evolving, you might find yourself asking: what is Trikke Tech all about these days? The short answer: the carve. With Trikke carving vehicles,…

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Make 2016 the year you lose weight while having the time of your life

January 14, 2016
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The beginning of every new year means everywhere you look, someone is telling you how to become a whole new you. Lose weight. Be healthier. Get in better shape. Join a gym. Sign here. Follow this regime. Go on a diet. Get fit! Where’s the fun? someone might ask. Everyone who’s ever tried to get in better shape knows: the more fun your fitness regimen, the more likely your persistence and…

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Trikke saved my life, says star of victorious video

July 6, 2015
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Senior citizen wrote 20 scripts before choosing winning submission. His video has been a big hit in carving circles, receiving a good number of positive comments on both Facebook and YouTube, and winning a testimonial contest conducted by Trikke Tech in 2011. [See video at the end of this story.] Yet Larry Mehlmauer is mostly unaware of the attention and adulation his lone web video has received. After all, the…

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Senior hates exercise but loves his Trikke

July 6, 2015
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“I hate exercise. I really hate it. I’ve tried everything from rowing machines to stationary bikes to elliptical machines. The Trikke is truly a miracle machine.” Larry Mehlmauer is having a second childhood, quite a miracle, considering he’s 70 years-old. Factor in a host of health challenges — including a massive heart attack and diabetes — and some might call that more than a miracle. “I’m having more fun than…

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Overweight as a child, overcoming as a woman

October 24, 2012
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‘I silently vowed that if I ever reached 200 pounds, I would kill myself.’ In the spring of 2007, I reached the moment of truth regarding my weight. In a visit to my doctor, I was horrified to find I was well over 200 pounds. My diet of choice, which had worked adequately for a few years, was just not doing the job anymore. To be honest, maybe that charge…

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How’s this for a fitness regimen: 10 miles on a Trikke, 400 push-ups and 150 pull ups?

September 20, 2012
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Rob Synder is a Florida fitness fanatic whose story in the Tampa Bay Times. In the video that accompanies the Times story, the über fit Floridian demos a variety of “funky outdoor exercising contraptions,” including his Trikke; while in a more recent YouTube clip, viewers get a closer look at how Synder combines cross training and carving during a Trikke workout. According to the description of the YouTube video, for…

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Carving my way to better health on my Trikke

June 20, 2012
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D.C. photojournalist has all but forgotten about his bike. I’m a 43-year-old photojournalist in Washington D.C., who bought my Trikke three years ago after seeing it on a late-night infomercial and thinking: it looks like a lot of fun …. and it is! For the first two years, I used it for recreation, which was just fine, I mean, that is what it’s for, right? Since then, I’ve started using…

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From Tragedy to Triumph on a Trikke

December 1, 2011
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Former female bodybuilder finds new life on three wheels. In my mid-20’s, I had a bad self-image. Women’s bodybuilding was in its early stages and I decided to train with weights to get into shape. Soon after, sculpting my body with weights turned into one of my passions. I went from training in my basement, to being the one of the first women to join a men’s gym, to becoming…

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