In this session, we present different muscles that will benefit from elliptical workouts: With an elliptical machine, you can do more than just work on your arm and leg muscles. Pin On Fitness Hand muscles, legs muscles, shoulders, thigh, back, chest and belly. What leg muscles does the elliptical work . In fact, if you remove your hands from the handles and either place them on your hips or pump your arms, you can also give your core muscles an effective workout. On the other hand, the elliptical machine works for whole body muscles. The major group of muscles is targeted as follows: The back muscles run all along the back of the body and are a major muscle group consisting of many smaller muscles. When you perform the elliptical, the back muscles will be used to pull the handle bars towards the body, doing so on every single rep you take. This muscle groups also includes the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus, and they essentially serve to stabilize the hips. Wh...