By Jacob Chambers, Founder & Lead Reviewer · Updated 2 August 2026
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ProForm has been quietly absent from the UK cross trainer conversation for years, which is odd given the brand sits under the same roof as NordicTrack and iFIT. The Sport Elliptical is its attempt at the entry-level end: £499 on Amazon UK, 20 digital resistance levels, and a year of iFIT Train bundled in rather than sold separately.
That bundling is the interesting part. Buy almost any connected cross trainer and the subscription starts billing after a month. Here you get twelve months, which pushes the effective cost of the first year well below what the sticker suggests. Whether it's the right machine depends almost entirely on how tall you are, because the stride length is the number ProForm doesn't put in the headline.
How we review
This review draws on ProForm's published specifications for the Sport Elliptical, the details in the Amazon UK listing, and the consistent themes across verified owner feedback and established testing outlets. We have not run our own long-term hands-on test of this unit, so we've reported repeated findings rather than isolated opinions, and we've flagged the specification numbers that matter most before you buy.
Someone who wants joint-friendly cardio at home, doesn't want a treadmill's noise or impact, and would rather follow a class than stare at a wall. The included iFIT year handles the class part, and the device shelf plus USB-C port means your phone stays charged through a long session instead of dying at minute forty.
It's the wrong machine if you're tall. A 16in stride on a front-drive elliptical produces a short, slightly bouncy motion that anyone around 6ft or above tends to find cramped within a few sessions. It's also the wrong machine if you weigh close to the 113kg limit, since running at the edge of a rating rarely ends well. Our best cross trainer UK guide has longer-stride options.
Twenty levels of silent magnetic resistance is the spec that separates this from the sub-£350 cross trainers, and it's the right place for ProForm to have spent money. The spread is broad enough that a recovery session and a hard interval session both have somewhere sensible to sit, and the digital control means the resistance changes at the press of a button rather than by twisting a knob that never quite lands where you wanted.
The pedals deserve a mention. They're wide, cushioned and long enough that a size 12 foot sits properly rather than hanging off the back, which sounds trivial until you've done forty minutes on a machine with small plastic pedals.
Where it gives ground is the drivetrain. A 16lb flywheel is light, and light flywheels reveal themselves when you push: the motion stays smooth at moderate effort and gets slightly choppier as resistance climbs, because there's less rotating mass carrying you through the dead spots in the stroke. Combined with the 16in stride, hard intervals feel more like fast stepping than running.
| Price | £499 at the time of writing |
|---|---|
| Resistance | 20 digital magnetic levels |
| Stride length | 16 in / approx 41 cm |
| Flywheel | Approx 16 lb / 7 kg |
| Display | 5in LCD plus device shelf and USB-C port |
| Max user weight | 250 lb / approx 113 kg |
| Dimensions | Approx 150 x 65 x 156 cm |
| Machine weight | Approx 53 kg per the Amazon listing |
| Included membership | 1 year iFIT Train |
| App integrations | Strava, Garmin, Google Fit, Apple Health |
The included year of iFIT Train is the headline feature and it comes with an irritating wrinkle: the code isn't in the box. ProForm asks you to email amazon@nordictrack.co.uk to request it. That works, and owners report reasonable turnaround, but it's an odd bit of friction on a £499 purchase and worth knowing so you're not hunting through packaging.
Once you're in, iFIT gives you over ten thousand sessions with trainers filming in real locations, and SmartAdjust changes your resistance to match the terrain without you touching the console. On this machine that adjustment happens through the ProForm control rather than a built-in screen, so you'll be watching on your own tablet propped on the shelf.
The integrations are the underrated part. iFIT pushes to Strava, Garmin Connect, Google Fit and Apple Health, so your sessions land wherever you already track training. Plenty of connected fitness platforms would rather keep your data to themselves.
Cross trainers at £499 usually give you either decent resistance or a decent subscription, rarely both. The Sport Elliptical manages both by keeping the console basic and letting your own device do the display work, which is a sensible trade if you already own a tablet.
What you're really buying is consistency. Low-impact cardio you'll actually do beats high-impact cardio you avoid, and the British Heart Foundation puts the payoff for 150 minutes of moderate activity a week at up to a 35% lower risk of heart and circulatory disease. The WHO makes the same point globally in its physical activity fact sheet, noting that most of the world falls short. A cross trainer in a spare room removes the weather and the commute from the equation, and the NHS asks for strength work on at least two days a week alongside that cardio, which a set of adjustable dumbbells covers cheaply.
Against the competition, the Reebok GX50 and the JLL CT300 sit nearby on price with different compromises, and the Bowflex Max Trainer M6 offers a very different, much more intense motion for considerably more money.
At £499 with a year of iFIT included, it makes sense for someone under about 5ft 9in who wants low-impact cardio and follow-along classes without a screen tax. The 16in stride is the sticking point: taller riders will find it choppy compared with the 18in to 20in stride on rear-drive cross trainers. Try one in a shop if you're over 6ft.
The published spec is 16 inches, roughly 41cm. That's short for a cross trainer. Machines with an 18in to 20in stride give a longer, more natural running motion, and the difference is very noticeable if you're tall. For shorter users and for walking-pace sessions, 16in is perfectly workable.
No. The machine works as a standard manual cross trainer with 20 resistance levels and a 5in LCD showing time, distance, calories and resistance. iFIT adds guided classes and automatic resistance changes, and ProForm includes a one-year iFIT Train membership with this model. After that year you either pay or carry on manually.
Only a small 5in LCD for basic metrics, plus a shelf and a USB-C port for your own phone or tablet. That's how ProForm keeps the price at £499. If you want a built-in touchscreen you're looking at ProForm's higher models or a NordicTrack, both of which cost considerably more.
Around 16lb, roughly 7kg. That's light by cross trainer standards and it shows in the feel: the motion is smooth enough at moderate resistance but less flowing than heavier-flywheel machines when you push the pace. It's a fair compromise at this price rather than a fault.
250lb, roughly 113kg. That's on the low side for a home cross trainer and worth checking against your own weight before ordering, since exceeding it voids the warranty and puts real strain on the frame and bearings.
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