Which of these is stopping my weight loss?
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otolith said:
It's really a matter of what I can fit in on my lunch break (I work from home) - if I've got an hour to fit in some exercise and a shower, I burn more calories on the trainer than digging out the bike or going for a walk. It's a very useful instrument of torture bit of kit for people who don't have a lot of free time.
Oh, right. Yes, well if time is restricted, not much choice. Is there an option to make the resistance harder? Perhaps that is what you can do to make each movement burn even more.Yes, resistance can be changed. It does all sorts of clever things, target calories, target heart rate, target time or distance, intervals, endurance, etc. The program I use just has a warm up and cool down either side of a constant resistance, so I let it do the warm up and then increase the resistance to as much as I can hack for the duration I intend doing. I could do with getting a compatible heart rate strap for it, because you can't use it properly while holding on to the heart rate monitor handles.
We had a crappy £99 one for a few years, which evetually broke. We bought a Reebok C5.1e for £400 quid - RRP somewhat more than that, but they had just been discontinued. It's fairly compact, smooth, seems well built, makes reasonably credible estimates of calorie burn and unlike the old one, quiet. The old one made a noise which must have had the neighbours enviously speculating about my sexual stamina.
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