FAVORITE EXERCISE EQUIPMENT?
AliceNov2011
Posts: 471 Member
I just ordered a Captain's Chair (for abs) and Inversion Machine (for back) from Hammacher Schlemmer. So excited! Targets my neediest spots! Here it is: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=11854
What's your favorite contraption?
What's your favorite contraption?
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I love my Tony Little Gazelle it's like a cross country skiing machine...low impact0
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my mini exercise bike I can sit and watch the TV while burning calories ever night0
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I recently restarted my weight loss journey. To ease back into exercise, I decided to try out a weighted hula hoop. I really enjoy working with it and use it 5-6 times a week for 30 minutes at a time. I have noticed a good amount of difference with simple things like stair climbing and not being out of breath when I reach the top. Recently I picked up a used nordic track treadmill and currently am using that every other day. After seeing the captains chair and the benefits from that piece, I am thinking that might be my newest toy
I have a full gym membership, but I much prefer to work out at home. Dog walks fill in the empty moments! 0 -
I'll let you know about the Captain's Chair as soon as it arrives!0
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It depends on where I am. If I am at the Y I think I prefer the elliptical and if I am at home I prefer my bike. I have really enjoyed being outdoors this summer and learning to ride the greenway around my city. I like to mix things up so I don't use the same things all the time because I get bored so easy.0
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When I'm at the gym, my favorite exercise equipment is definitely the elliptical machine. However, I mostly do classes during the week including Zumba, Camp Fit and Total Body. The latter 2 classes utilize equipment such as free weights, exercise ball, disk, and a step. Great workouts each and every time!0
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My favorite is my bicycle...It's a Cannondale...I had custom features added to make it a more comfortable ride for me (shock seat post & gel seat..bonus!) There are some days that I just get so caught up in riding that when I do come home I am amazed that I have ridden 30 plus miles and I'm so energized to ride more...The sluggishness I felt at the beginning of this journey is gone...To God be the Glory!0
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My DVR, all my DVD's (yoga, weighlifting, HIIT, & bootcamp) :laugh:
My PowerBlock weights & my kettlebells and of course my own body. Love body weight training, so powerful.0 -
By far it is my Xbox with Kinect and the Zumba Fitness Rush game! It's how I got started on this journey, and still one of my favorite workouts--though I did a great Zumba class at the Y today, which is a different kind of fun. Just got the Zumba Core game, I'm planning on trying that tomorrow.0
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With a serious spine injury and arthritic knees, exercise of any sort is a challenge. But my husband, who is a competitive cyclist, was determined to find a way to get me on a bike. His bike shop suggested a recumbent 3-wheel trike and let me borrow one for a couple of weeks. To my surprise, I was able to ride it without strain on my back, neck, or knees, and I cried when I felt the wind in my face going down the first hill! When the weather got bad, I bought an indoor recumbent which sits in front of my TV and I watch my chick shows that hubby wouldn't watch with me, so I don't get bored.
2 yrs ago our city put gravel down on our neighborhood roads and the jarring was too much for my spine, so I haven't been able to ride outside. But after months of arguing with the city council, just received a letter that they are repaving our street and the street behind us, so soon I will be able to at least ride around my block, and hopefully next year they can pave some more streets.
So don't think that you can't exercise. Just find SOMETHING that will get your body moving and your heart rate up. You will feel so much better!0 -
The only "equipment" I own is a treadmill. I like it, but I enjoy walking around the lake at our local park more. I also like the "Walk at Home" series on YouTube. I'm thinking about joining a gym, but I'm not sure if I would go regularly. Also thinking about buying a bicycle, if I could find someplace to ride it. I have an xbox and love the games on it. Also have a variety of DVD's. Mostly stretching.
I also have arthritis (rheumatoid); but the more I lose and exercise and stretch, the better I feel. I do have some bad days, but not as many as before.0 -
I go between my treadmill and elliptical. Really started to like the elliptical more lately.0
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<<<< my 28 yr old Raleigh bike
Home gym:
Elliptical
Leslie sansone videos
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Definitely Kettlebells - I LOVE them! I'm definitely a Tracy Reifkind groupie. I do at least 30 minutes 3-4 times a week. On the other days I do body-weight routines and once a week my husband and I take a pilates class at a nearby studio.0
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Definitely Kettlebells - I LOVE them! I'm definitely a Tracy Reifkind groupie. I do at least 30 minutes 3-4 times a week. On the other days I do body-weight routines and once a week my husband and I take a pilates class at a nearby studio.
I'll second the kettlebells, and also my running shoes! That sounds so odd for me as I spent so many years saying "I can't run".0 -
My legs, I walk and walk and walk some more!!!!!!!0
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My Favorite exercise equipment is the nearest swimming pool, pond, river or ocean.0
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Weights and kettle bells.0
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I have a Nautilus E514 elliptical and LOVE IT!!! Low impact, easy on the knees. It's programmable so I can change the type, intensity and time of my workouts. If it wasn't for this machine I would probably never get in a morning workout.0
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Hey fishborn - that's terrific. I love to swim but never mastered the art of swimming in the ocean. Good job!0
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Only my trainers I'm afraid - no room for a home gym here.
When I go to the gym I prefer the leg abductor/adductors to get my legs in a decent shape.0 -
My Slimtone vibrating belly massager.0
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I HATE TO EXERCISE! IT'S THE DEVIL!!!! :devil: :devil: :devil:
Phew - had to get that out of my system...
That being said I clearly dont have a favorite. lol :laugh:
Though, I have started riding my exercise bike and starting tomorrow am going to do 2 things:
1) A friend of mine is doing a 120 mile bike challenge for the month of November (I hate exercise, but I love a challenge)
2) I have decided that I am going to ride my effing God I hate you bike for 30 minutes a day and track how many miles I go for 3 months. At the end of the 3 months I am going to figure out where in real life I would have been able to travel. Yes - this may be a little lame, but I'm not sure if you are aware of this or not but I HATE TO EXERCISE so I had to try to think of something to make it interesting for myself. :grumble:
I do love to play softball and have joined a team. I play catcher because other than pitcher that is the most active position and I get the best workout at it. :happy:0 -
I own an awesome pair of hiking boots - and I wear them everywhere. Walking for 6 hours around DC, walking for 4 hours around Paris. I even had to wear one of them to a formal dance once, when I had a broken foot. They were the only shoes my orthopedist allowed. It was either the hiking boot or cast & crutches. I wasn't very graceful dancing, but I did dance!!0
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I love my recumbant bike and my exercise ball0
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I absolutely love the rowing machine at the gym! Works everything, and reminds me of summers on the lake when I was young.0
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The pool ... wish I had one in my basement. But I hit the community center in the next town over, and swim my little heart out at least once a week. I just totally love to swim.0
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At home I love my stationary bike can watch tv and ride for an hour or more. At the Y I love the elliptical.0
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Ugh my pool is my most missed exercise equipment. My ab lounger is my most favorite currently.0
