"Opening up a Little" or, show a little

[Stephen Biko]

Unfortunately low-impact aerobic workouts tend to require a machine of some sort (elliptical, rowing machine, etc.) which would force me to actually go to a gym. I was too lazy to do that before I had a kid, let alone now. Fortunately I still have a pretty high metabolism so I'm only 20-30 lbs. overweight, but I'll be happy to hear suggestions on stuff that can be done at home.

I use a schwinn airdyne excerise bike. It's still a machine, but it's somewhat affordable - pretty easy to find a lightly used one for ~$300 on ebay. On the advice of a trainer I am currently doing intervals of 15 seconds flat-out and 45 seconds recovery for 10 minutes plus a couple of warm-up warm-down minutes. Interval training appears to be unusually effective but nobody seems to fully understand the mechanism, just the results. For a while they were calling it "oxygen debt" but that's proved to not be the case. Whatever is going on, it seems like a way to get ~45 minutes worth of cardio in ~15 minutes worth of time.

[handeeman]

Stephen, boy you got it right Interval training is the way to go. It's something I discovered a couple of years ago after switching from beer to red wine for health reasons. What I try to do is fill a tea mug with red wine (no ice) consume it within 5 min., then take a 1min. interval and refill the glass. I do this a couple oor tree times (like now). Then with another inteveral of 1min. or soooooo i fell the grass wit ice (for the added wait) and whine. Whot I halve dicoverred is mi right arm is willy willy getin strongrr. Nowe Im gonna lern how to use the other right arm prolly by using too glasses. House this for "open kneeing" up a little. ?

[Ldub]

Stephen, boy you got it right Interval training is the way to go. It's something I discovered a couple of years ago after switching from beer to red wine for health reasons. What I try to do is fill a tea mug with red wine (no ice) consume it within 5 min., then take a 1min. interval and refill the glass. I do this a couple oor tree times (like now). Then with another inteveral of 1min. or soooooo i fell the grass wit ice (for the added wait) and whine. Whot I halve dicoverred is mi right arm is willy willy getin strongrr. Nowe Im gonna lern how to use the other right arm prolly by using too glasses. House this for "open kneeing" up a little. ?

Looks like it's working well for you..............