I wish this thing came with a video you could follow. It was not that easy to set up for the price. I guess you get what you get. It is an excellent total body workout . You can use it to jog, run safely even with arthritis in the right knee. It's recommended to me by my physical therapist to do a car accident at the beginning of the year that has cost early osteoarthritis on my right knee. Because it's old injury was triggered. It has fracture at the tip of the knee. Also, if you position yourself into a bicycle position you can give your glutes , core and lower legs like a really good cardiovascular. overall, very happy excellent material , sturdy good quality elliptical . Excellent product. I bought a mat from this website. The other ellipticals were much higher priced and so were their workout mats even on their black Friday sales I checked Target and Amazon with the exact same features . Handle bars have a cushioning grip and 16 resistance settings at the turn of a knob very convenint. I'm able to run into my workouts at a higher speed without hurting my knee. I used to go running outside and I was advised to no longer do that by my doctor because of the condition my knee was in.