how do you beat boredom on training machines?

monkeypantz

I'm lucky enough to have my own cross-trainer at home, but it's kept in the spare room, and I get bored after 10 minutes on it....I try and push myself further but I get soooooo bored on it!!! Ideally I want to be doing 30-40 mins a day on it.


How do you guys beat boredom on machines and what do you do to push yourselves to keep going?

biscuit71

We have a gym at my work and the ellipticals and treadmills have satellite tvs on them. So, I go at 1 when my favorite soap is on. It really helps me alot. Time seems to go by faster.

cptechwork

The key is to tie the machine into whatever you would normally do for 40 minutes on the sofa or chair. I got a wireless keyboard/mouse and set up my computer so I could turn my monitor and see it while I exercise. So I can do whatever I feel like: watch a show on Hulu or Netflix, browse, play a game. A normal hour long TV show is about 43 minutes. That's a good exercise length.

I've also done audiobooks. I can't read books while exercising, but some people can.

If I had to just do it with nothing else, I wouldn't do it. But this way it turns into a nice undisturbed segment of time where you can do what you want to do. You can start to look forward to it.