I can't do the exercise bikes, I get tired within minutes
but if I'm doing real cycling I can go for ages, plus the up hill down dale thing is much better exercise.

Running scares me, with all the joint pounding, I worry it'll ruin my knees and ankles. I liked the cross trainer though. There are also those weird machines where you stand on the two paddles that move independently from each other and it kind of looks like you're skiing. I can't work those either, I can't get the rhythm right so I just end up spending the whole time trying not to lose my legs out from under me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 9:02, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I can't do running really
As my knees start to get sore after not very far. Plus you get somewhere far quicker with a bike.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 9:04, Reply)

Oh, that's what a cross trainer is!
I've never been to a gym. I prefer swimming as my form of exercise.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 9:04, Reply)

the skiing thing isn't the cross trainer,
although I suppose it is a bit like skiing as well, so my description is rubbish. The skiing one I was describing goes out to the sides rather than forward in an elliptical motion. It's supposed to tone your ass, but I just can't work it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 9:20, Reply)

Imagine you're at glastonbury
wading through shin-deep mud. I think that's how ypu're supposed to do it, I know those women you sometimes see doing it really fast are doing it wrong.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 10:02, Reply)

really?
there was a bird in my old gym that used to do it lightning fast for the whole time I was there, she was always sweating buckets. I thought she must be hardcore.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 10:15, Reply)

compare with slow sit-ups and fast sit-ups
slow ones are much harder so you end up doing the same amount of exercise for a given time. But doing it superfast makes you more injury prone.

Aim for a solid slog.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 10:28, Reply)

oh yeah that's true
I do slow ab crunches, they're way more difficult. And the bastard plank. IT WILL NOT DEFEAT ME!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 11:01, Reply)

I got bored as fuck in the gym
yet find swimming clears my mind and I can just concentrate on technique without getting bored.

gyms are full of wankers anyway. or if not, you perceive that they are wankers so they may as well be.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 9:51, Reply)