Give the perfect gift for Christmas and know that your friend or family member will love you for it! Why give someone a cutting board, the cliche set of tools, or superfluous clothes, when you can give a gift with so much importance and value as a treadmill or an elliptical. Rowing machines are awesome gifts as well because they do not take up too much space and their are plenty of gym quality rowing machines at discounted prices. Other examples of low maintenance, low cost, and space saving fitness equipment are upright bikes and recumbent bikes. Not only do stationary exercise bikes take up little space and produce highly effective results, but fitness bikes are easy on joints and bones as well. In contrast to treadmills and stairclimbers which can hurth the knees and hips its user, exercise bikes put little pressure on the joints and tendons of the user.