Making Cardio Painless

[Randy Ryan]

I started exercising last fall and I've dropped some pretty serious tonnage. However my experience on the elliptical is excruciatingly miserable. The other night I was trying to take my mind off the half hour drudge I remembered how I used to fly the pattern while lying in bed at night. So,,,,,since I'm working against a timer anyway I started closing my eyes and practicing. My first "flight" ran over 9 minutes so I started counting pedal revolution since I was pedaling at 60 RPM.  Last night I flew 3 7:15 second flights with a short mental critique at the end of each and my half hour was gone in no time!!!!

[Bill Little]

Hi Brother Randy!

I, too, use mental games to get through some less than desirable necessary tasks.

I often fall asleep flying the pattern!  I get through my prayers, lay down and then get a smooth tune in my head and start flying!

Bill

[Will Hinton]

Whatever works is usually good!  For my cardio I use my iPod set to shuffle and make sure there's a lot of blues & jazz on tap.  The gym where I work out has Sirious radio and I can set it to smooth jazz for my resistance training session.
some days when I'm ready to leave I almost feel like it's too early!  But I always am able to fight the feeling off!!!!

[Paul Taylor]

that is a great idea Randy.

I watch my CL tapes when at home on the cross trainer. When I go to the gym I take one side of the cable weights the one with what looks like could be a metal CL handle, put 20 pounds on it and go thru a pattern. I know people watching wonder what I am doing. The O8's don't come out right but I do it to work on my shoulder and arm.

[Avaiojet]

I call people up. Time flies when you're talking to someone you don't know. 

Charles