Friday

29 October 2010

We've established that I can walk reasonable distances and for long periods of time. but this--


Zooom

--this is kicking my ass.

The first time out on it I managed 15 minutes before I was sucking wind and feeling like I was going to hurl, and distance wise I only made it .83 miles.

Today I managed 20 minutes--I'm not sure how far because I didn't have my GPS thingy on me--but at least I didn't want to hork up my lunch.

I'm hoping that between it and the Trikke I'll serious up my cardio conditioning, but for now...geeeeeeez.

5 comments:

Karen Nichols said...

I'm really intrigued by this. Is the difficulty in that it's a more serious cardio workout than walking, or that you're using different muscles?

Thumper said...

It's a much more serious workout than walking (for me.) I had a hard time getting my heart rate up to 110 when walking; less than a minute on this and it's pushing 160. Which tells me I'm really out of shape.

There are also several versions of this that function a lot more like mobile elliptical trainers--they have the arm thingies where this one just has a bike handlebar. That's a full body workout; mine is probably a 80% body workout.

StreetStrider.com ... you can peek at them there.

Em said...

You go! As a couch potato, I'm always impressed - and a bit envious - of those who take on the challenge of some serious exercise.

The Furry Bambinos said...

Congrats on the workout bike thingy! I think that I would fall off. ;-)

And thank you so much for the key chain! It arrived a few days ago, and it really made me smile. You are to be congratulated for completing the 3 Day. I will think of you every time I use it!

Mom Sue to The Furry Bambinos

Dana @ Russian Food said...

Cool. I know its a quit old post but I just want to say this post has so much fun reading it and the bike is a good tool for exercising. :)