rwbeagles-Evil....little....machine

LMBO!! I have one of those gazelle thingie's and it seriously kicked my butt for about the first month!! My legs would be rubber, my lungs on fire, that thing made my HAIR hurt.........it does get easier......eventually......

I think giving birth was easier and encompassed less sweating and swearing. I honestly do.

Once it stops kicking your butt, boredom will kick in and you won't want to stay on it long. At least that is my experience. I find elipticals, treadmill and nordic tracks way to boring to handle more than 10 min.

LOL well it'll be temporary that I use it likely...I just want to tone up my legs a bit.

I shockingly discovered I weighed very near 130lbs the other day which is alarming to say the very least. That and tho I can occasionally pick up Cleo to weigh her...I am tired of being pathetically weak LOL.

It was either this or eating better and yeah well...this is possible at least.

Yes Gina, it gets easier!  The first time I lasted maybe 10 minutes and that included some little breaks and slowing down, lol.  Now I can go three times as fast for 45-60 minutes straight without stopping and I've only been at it since end of Jan.  The first few weeks I felt like I couldn't breath and my body was turning to Jello!

rwbeagles

I think giving birth was easier and encompassed less sweating and swearing. I honestly do.

Well, that's REALLY good to know! 

rwbeagles

I think giving birth was easier and encompassed less sweating and swearing. I honestly do.

You know, it may very well have been, now that I think about it!!

Of course childbirth was easier...I got the epideral!!!

 I'm right there with you Gina.  If I can do 7 minutes, likely 6 of them are as slow as the machine can possibly go!  LOL.  But right now mine is stuck in the corner of the room cause my balance is way off and I'm afraid I'd fall off.  After the baby, after the baby....I keep telling myself that. 

Sometimes it helps to switch it up a bit though.  Try going backwards for a couple minutes.  It works different muscles so it might feel better.

I have been on my friend's elliptical machine 2 times. I stayed on 20 minutes each time(but I also walk 4 miles a day) and by 10 minutes I have sweat pouring off my face. I love the workout I get on it. I will have one by xmas!!!

I'd LOVE to have an elipitical machine! If I could afford a gym quality one and had the space for it, I'd definitely go for it. A less sturdy home quality one would probably just annoy me. I have a recumbent Lifecycle that's exactly like the ones at the gym and I use it all the time, but at the gym I use the elipitical trainer. I put a lucite bookholder on both machines to read while I work out, and disengage my mind. My only problem is that my toes start going numb if I stay on it too long. A half hour is okay, 45 minutes is pushing it, but I can do it, barely. An hour would be torture. I wish that didn't happen, I would like to be able to stay on it for an hour. I'd die of boredom without a book, but I figure if I'm going to read anyway, I may as well get some exercise in while I do it.

I have the same problem with my Lifecycle. Normally I use the hill program, an interval program which is supposed to have the most effect with the least perceived effort of any of the programs. The maximum hill program is 24 minutes, so I usually do two, for 48 minutes, level 6 on the first one, level 5 on the second one. At one point I had worked up to an hour and a half on the Lifecycle, but now, not only do I not seem to have that much free time, (maybe when my dogs are perfect and I don't need to train anymore, lol!), but I have the same problem with numb feet if I stay on too long.

 I love elliptical trainers.  When I first got on it was hard to pace myself though.  It is really easy to get going really fast, and that tires people out quickly. 

rwbeagles

I shockingly discovered I weighed very near 130lbs the other day which is alarming to say the very least.

 Oh! *gasp*choke*sputter*  NOT 130!!!  OMG!!! 

I just restarted Weight Watchers and that's my GOAL WEIGHT!  So you, Miss Elliptical Lady, can kiss my flubbery tuckus!!!  

And on the topic of ellipticals, even when I was in fantastic shape, could run 4+ miles on the treadmill and could ski non-stop for 8-10 hours a day, I still couldn't do more than 5 minutes on an elliptical.  Those things are evil!!!!  But I do envy the tight tooshies and thighs I see on them when I'm running or stairclimbing away.  I just can't manage them!

BCMixs

  flubbery tuckus!!!  

Hmm so THAT's how it's spelled...I've never seen one written down.