Exercise: C'mon & Get Physical!

For anger management, I recommend Madden 2002 - goddamn, I cuss at the screen like a low-rent Jim Mora.

And while this might shock, I was being a bit facetious re: my oh-so- hectic schedule. Yes, stunning.

Intentional exercise is boring. Dancing and floor sliding and biking to get places are muchly preferable.

You have stumbled across the future of exercise, in the shape of the BUSTICATOR.

'Sexercise' is one of my favourite words.

But not very good for bones ie I fall down on the pavement and they all break.

so the nf has decided he wants to get him an exercise bike... i have tried to talk him into getting a real bike but not too hard - this is undoubtedly A Good Thing and A Big Step Forward and i don't want to dissuade him. so he asked me to do some research and find one. i guess his thinking is that since i ride my bike everywhere i will know what to look for in an exercise bike but this couldn't be further from the truth - i ride my bike and run in the park partly because i think running machines and exercise bikes are dumb when you can get the real thing and it will be cheaper/free/better/more fun/you can achieve two things at once etc etc. so i really don't know what i'm looking for. something that doesn't cost a million pounds would be good, he's far from skint but not made of money either - i was thinking around £150-200? closer to the £200 mark might mean he would actually use it more... this one below is £100 but is it crap?

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/880/mia/d/cintura+rapide+programmable+magnetic+exercise+bike+9999+next+day+delivery/pid/5778718

some of the ones i've seen have weight restrictions on them and he won't tell me what he weighs :/

brands to avoid/go for? features recommended? places to avoid buying them from? good places for advice? any help at all would be welcome... we are in london uk.

Get the easiest one to dust, far too dull for me, then again I do laps in the pool..

I would spend the money on a years gym/pool membership for him.

neufriend?

Get the easiest one to dust, far too dull for me, then again I do laps in the pool..

well yeah that's what i think, hence trying a bit to persuade him to get a real bike. i think the idea is he can watch football or films or, er, his blackberry, while he's on a stationary one.

I would spend the money on a years gym/pool membership for him.

would never, ever, ever get used. not even once. partly there is no way he'll do any of this in public (this is part of the reason for not-a-real-bike), and also he genuinely doesn't have time. the other thing about the exercise bike is he can use it at 1am or whatever. also it's his money not mine.

neufriend?

um yeah.

I did pushups today. it's been a couple of weeks.

1 am exercise is wrong and depending on your flat/house, noisy :)

I would look for something cheap/free maybe second hand look at borrowing one for a bit, sorry to be negative but I feel home gym equipment will end up gathering dust given other distractions at home unless you have a rigid will of iron.

buying home gym equipment means you have to MAINTAIN home gym equipment ugh.

1 am exercise is wrong and depending on your flat/house, noisy :)

is exercise bike noisy? real bike is nearly silent, except when going over bumpy bits, which i'm hoping would not be a problem with exercise bike.

I would look for something cheap/free maybe second hand look at borrowing one for a bit, sorry to be negative but I feel home gym equipment will end up gathering dust given other distractions at home unless you have a rigid will of iron.

yeah maybe i'll ask on freecycle...

re noise it depends on the resistance method and the surface the bike is on.

They can "rumble" quite a bit if on a hard floor.

I’ve never been convinced stationary bikes give you any real gain, at least compared to rowing on a rowing machine or running on a treadmill.

Crosstrainer is more interesting than an exercycle. But then again, exercyles are easier to read while you're no them. You kind of have to concentrate on crosstrainer or else you fall off.

I got mine for free, as you know - so I'd reccomend freecycle etc. Perhaps because it was free I use it more.

They can be quite noisy, but best if you just wear headphones.

The trick to keeping doing it is little and often - I do ten minutes without fail as soon as I wake up, so I'm too sleepy to complain about having to do it. And by the time I'm done riding, I'm AWAKE.

Oh, and sorry, but stationary bikes do not actually make you any better at riding real ones. I did years on exercycles and still cannot bicycle. They do nothing for your balance. (Weirdly, the crosstrainer is good for balance.)

I just couldn't exercise at home I have to go the pool and "be" somewhere else. Or have a purpose like cycling to work.