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United States22883 Posts
Recumbent bikes are terrible for exercise unless you're a 70 year old lady.
And they're all nauseating to use once you start doing some real exercise. I'd get the real bike or a treadmill or something.
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United States24745 Posts
On January 25 2009 13:29 Jibba wrote:
Recumbent bikes are terrible for exercise unless you're a 70 year old lady.
Agreed. What's worse than terrible exercise is no exercise so I'm aiming for the lesser of two evils...
Would you consider the upright much better?
edit: keep in mind I want something that allows me to watch video while I do it so anything overly ambitious won't work out
edit2: Jibba by real bike to you mean upright exercise bike or a regular bicycle? I don't think I can really do anything else while I run on the treadmill.
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United States22883 Posts
Yeah, upright is much better than recumbent. You can actually do well on it (like spinners do), it's just you start to feel like you're in a hamster wheel after a while.
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United States24745 Posts
Ah ok. BTW I neglected to mention that the less space the device takes up, the better, so an upright bike makes a little bit more sense.
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United States22883 Posts
I meant like a real bike, depending on where you live. Sort of pull a nA.Inky, without the whole tasting your own semen part.
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Upright, considering how darn expensive the recumbent is compared to its effectiveness
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In my opinion you shouldn't waste your money on an exercise bike. Get a treadmill or an elliptical or a ski machine. You can still watch t.v. while using these and they are all better forms of exercise.
Not to mention using those bikes take forever to burn a sufficient amount of calories compared to the other cardio machines. I agree with Jibba they are for old ladies ;p
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United States24745 Posts
On January 25 2009 14:05 Pengu1n wrote:
In my opinion you shouldn't waste your money on an exercise bike. Get a treadmill or an elliptical or a ski machine. You can still watch t.v. while using these and they are all better forms of exercise.
Not to mention using those bikes take forever to burn a sufficient amount of calories compared to the other cardio machines. I agree with Jibba they are for old ladies ;p
Treadmills are big and heavy so I really don't think I'm going to be getting one.
Ellipticals are several times more expensive than the mid-level bikes according to my research. Are they heavier also? If they are harder to move, or take up a lot of space, then they are not very good for me at the moment. If I am using an exercise bike on a high resistance setting and I still feel like the workout is negligible, then you are probably right about the bike being too light, but I honestly think you are exaggerating about that. The goal isn't for me to get extremely in shape... it's for me to get some exercise while enjoying video.... I prefer the gradual approach to the all out extreme exercise approach (which will inevitably end with me having a big device in my basement collecting dust)
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An elliptical will take up roughly 1.5 times room as upright bike lengthways. While they're probably about the same weight as a bike, they're a hell of a lot more of a pain in the ass to move around because of the parts you actually stand on.
I'd go for the upright bike personally, I never liked the elliptical I had, it just didn't feel very enjoyable to work out on, whereas on a bike you can just sort of zone out while peddling away.
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United States22883 Posts
The problem with ellipticals is that the home use ones are shit-tastic, even though the ones in gyms are great. You can do a lot with an upright bike, but you just have to push yourself like in a spinning class.
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United States24745 Posts
On January 25 2009 16:23 Jibba wrote:
The problem with ellipticals is that the home use ones are shit-tastic, even though the ones in gyms are great. You can do a lot with an upright bike, but you just have to push yourself like in a spinning class.
Do you just mean I'll need high resistance and to do long sessions? My current plan is ~20 minutes per session (1 episode)
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United States22883 Posts
It depends on intensity. Your best bet is to have some way to monitor your heart rate, although Polars usually cost $100. If you just do the same thing over and over your body is going to adjust.
Spinning classes usually have changes in resistance, sprints and jumps (rise up in your seat.) There's probably some Youtube videos that you can find the different positions on.
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United States24745 Posts
On January 25 2009 16:39 Jibba wrote:
It depends on intensity. Your best bet is to have some way to monitor your heart rate, although Polars usually cost $100. If you just do the same thing over and over your body is going to adjust.
Spinning classes usually have changes in resistance, sprints and jumps (rise up in your seat.) There's probably some Youtube videos that you can find the different positions on.
Ah ok I guess I'll research spinning a bit to better understand this stuff.
Are the built in heart rate monitors (metal touch plates or w/e) not sufficient for this purpose? The high end exercise equipment come with chest straps but I wasn't planning on getting one of those.
BTW I just did a couple of runs yesterday and today using the old bike with the minimum resistance (the only way it still works) and that's actually a bit of a workout at the moment haha... I'll do this a few more times while I figure out what I'm going to do afterward. I go about 5 miles if I run at about 65 rpm for 20 minutes, burn about 100 calories, and get my pulse up quite a bit according to the device, although I'm not sure how accurate the pulse rate monitor is... I don't see how after 1 minute when I still feel perfectly fine my pulse can be like 110. My current pulse isn't great but it's not quite that bad haha.
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United States22883 Posts
Oh, if it has the hand ones that'll work. I've never seen them built into bikes though.
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United States24745 Posts
On January 26 2009 04:19 Jibba wrote:
Oh, if it has the hand ones that'll work. I've never seen them built into bikes though.
I'm not sure how accurate this is... either that or my heart rate gets way too high, way too fast, even though I feel fine :-/
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I dislike recumbent bikes. Go for the stand up! While I've never done a spinning class myself, I heard they are really, really hard but effective.
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United States22883 Posts
On February 13 2009 02:44 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2009 04:19 Jibba wrote:
Oh, if it has the hand ones that'll work. I've never seen them built into bikes though. I'm not sure how accurate this is... either that or my heart rate gets way too high, way too fast, even though I feel fine :-/
What kind of readings are you getting? Check it before you get started. Your heart might just have a high thresh hold, I know mine does. Also, looking down will bring your heart rate up.
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Well, I wasn't the only one who thought excite bike first, apparently
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United States24745 Posts
On February 13 2009 09:20 Jibba wrote:Show nested quote +On February 13 2009 02:44 micronesia wrote:On January 26 2009 04:19 Jibba wrote:
Oh, if it has the hand ones that'll work. I've never seen them built into bikes though. I'm not sure how accurate this is... either that or my heart rate gets way too high, way too fast, even though I feel fine :-/ What kind of readings are you getting? Check it before you get started. Your heart might just have a high thresh hold, I know mine does. Also, looking down will bring your heart rate up.
Oh yeah I haven't been going on the bike lately so I haven't had a chance to try this.
Basically I cranked up the resistance a bit too much and overdid it and my knee hurt a bit. Coincidentally I had a doctor's appointment where he concluded it's ok and that I should just rest up for a week or so and then resume but with lower resistance. I asked him to take my pulse and he said it was 60 and that he could set his watch to it. That surprised me but w/e I'm not complaining.
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United States24745 Posts
I just started up again on lower resistance settings and feel fine. Hopefully this will work for a while.
Also I hope I have the bike adjusted well. My goal is to stretch my legs almost as far as they will go without locking the knee, but I'm worried maybe I could raise the seat a setting higher...
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Make the seat high enough, so your heel touches the pedal at its lowest point when the leg is stretched. That means when your feet are in a normal position, your leg is not completely, but almost stretched out.
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