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, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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)