What good is average speed if it has the same attack base stat as a pidgey , zubat and a wooper . Literally all have 45 base attack . Defence doesn ' t matter when any water move one hit kills it cause it has horrible special defence . It ' s objectively a shit Pokmon . <| sep |> Please do ! We ' re gonna be releasing a survival mode update before Christmas , with leaderboards and other surprises ! <| sep |> If you ' re supporting your weight grabbing the handles to lessen the amount of work done by your legs , the amount of work done by using your arms and some upper body muscles to pull your weight should be pretty much the same you ' re not doing with your legs . Therefore the total amount of calories burned should still be the same . Unless you find a way to lock your arms in some way that you ' re not contracting any muscle I think it ' s perfectly fine to hold on the handles , even if it does take away some of the leg part of the work out , from an energy consumption point of view they should be close to equivalent . I do this machine every week for cardio and I hold the front handles to have a heart rate reading , it usually goes really high like 180 and 190 bpm so I don ' t know if it really matters all that much .