Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Our New Workout

This is our new "toy", more like slave-master! haha. An elliptical machine combines the efforts of stair climbing, walking, and/or running without being as hard on the joints as those actual activities would be. I had high hopes for my first work-out on this to be 20-30 minutes, and I have to admit, I did not reach that goal...so I will just have to start with two 15-minute workouts during the day. Now that the weather is getting nice, I love to take the kids to the park, but on days that is not possible, it is so nice having something to eliminate excuses to not exercise.

2 comments:

Liz said...

At the YMCA the other day, Darrell saw this and suggested I do it for a while and then walk. WELL, "for awhile" was about 5 minutes!!! That thing made me feel like a loon! I think the next time I made it to 6-7 minutes, but boy! I think I'll stick to my walking/running!

Kara Plank said...

Haha! I know! I can only do 10 minutes at a time with just starting out!!! It's a killer, but I'm hoping for killer results! :)