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Originally Posted by slaxxx
I should probably do that too, Mihx. But I'd probably spend more time reading reviews of other exercise bikes instead of actually using it..
Have you used this one yet? Or did assembling it count as today's exercise?  |
I took a short 15 minute spin - a bit unexpectedly I ended up with a sore ass before I ran out of breath
.
Though considering I haven't sat on a bike for probably seven or eight years now, I guess that shouldn't have come as much of a surprise.
I expect to start out with 20-25 minutes a day this first week (wouldn't want any vital organs to give up due to unusual stress
), and then slowly ramp it up.
Despite the cheapish materials and somewhat shoddy construction, it actually seems like a decent enough bike. Heart rate monitor built into the handlebars (didn't take much pedalling for me to get to 130+
), a bunch of varied exercise programs handled by the computer rather than through manual and mechanical adjustment of the resistance, BMI/BMR/fat percentage calculation (scary numbers), pulse recovery rate etc.
I think my next purchase is going to be a 23" LCD TV to hang on the wall in front of the bike - might keep me on it for a bit longer at a time
, and I wouldn't mind a small TV in the bedroom anyway.