Patent ID: 7226392

Claim:
A fitness machine with elliptical and stepping functions, comprising a frame, a driving mechanism, two sliding rods, and two swinging arms, the driving mechanism being pivotally coupled to the two sliding rods, such that the two sliding rods are driven by the driving mechanism to swing back and forth, the frame comprising a base and a vertical rod; the two sliding rods separately include a pedal having a connecting plate, and two front ends of the two sliding rods separately and pivotally coupled to a swinging arm of the vertical rod; the two support rods having one end separately and pivotally coupled to the connecting plate of the pedal, and the other end selectively fixed to the vertical rod or the sliding rod; such that if one end of the two support rods is selectively fixed to the vertical rod, a limit effect will be produced on the two pedals, so that the two pedals move up and down for a stepping exercise, and if one end of the two support rods is fixed to the sliding rod, the limit effect on the pedal provided by the each support rod will be diminished to move the two pedals back and forth for an elliptic exercise, and regardless of the stepping exercise or the elliptic exercise, the two swinging arms are linked by the two sliding rods to swing back and forth, so as to define a fitness machine with elliptic and stepping functions.