Good Morning Katie,

Before you buy an expensive piece of equipment, spend some time trying it out. Finding something that doesn't stress you out and you can commit to - is a difficult decision.

What I do is this... After knee surgery, the recumbent bike was part of my rehab. I just really liked doing it (Many find it boring) and I bought a really good quality one and it has been so worth it. I do that every day for usually 30 minutes. Then , I take a short 15 minute walk with my hubby. I ,also, do a variety of dvd exercise programs which I fit in during the day. I buy them from Collage where I can view them online. Or get them at Target, etc. I usually check them out from the library and try them out before I purchase them. Right now I have plantar faciitis and so am only biking and stretching.
Hope that helps.
Mady

I don't have any plan. However, since we moved, after living 32 years in our starter house, just walking around my new house seems to be doing the trick, heh. My evil grown health Ed daughters helped us move. They decided that all the stuff I use daily needs to be in the basement. So I've been doing stairs, ugh. I want to sew? Or play WOW? Down the stairs. >.<
I fooled them. I sit on my iPad now in the kitchen, haha.
Seriously, ive made an effort to be more active during the day. Housework, ick, stuff like that. Next summer, I will be hitting the outside, working in my yard. My new house needs some TLC on the outside too. So i get work done, then reward myself with either sewing or gaming.
Sorry. I wish I could have said I was a gold member of golds gym, haha. But my daughter used to date the owner and I can't stand him, ha.
If I had any advice, I would say that if you sweat washing the dishes or folding laundry, then you are exercising. Don't tell my evil grown health Ed daughters I said that, tho, ha.

Now that school is starting again my schedule is changing. My 4yo nephew and I will walk the 6yo to school. After we come home I'll put a show on for him, dance around while doing the dishes, and then we'll play a dancing game on the Wii. In the afternoon I work online and then when I'm relaxing in the evening watching tv I can do my pilates machine. My mom also wants me to put together a little circuit workout for us to do on our various machines, so I think we'll start out doing 10 minutes on each and rotating (treadmill, elliptical, bodyrow, pilates chair).

I walk for an hour every day and have recently started lifting some light weights and doing leg raises. Love my morning walk. Weights, not so much.