Sports & Fitness Exercise bike

This was me sitting on the trainer last weekend for 12hrs raising money for Smiling for Smiddy. Was using a program called Zwift which varies the resistance of the trainer (Wahoo Kickr) to mimic those of uphill/downhill/drafting on a chosen course. Its a live program and you can ride with and race others from around the world at any time of the day.

 

potentially ridiculous suggestion that requires too much space: an elliptical. we bought a schwinn second-hand off gumtree and it's been awesome. easy to switch from lower body effort to upper body effort (or obviously a mixture of the two)

 

Awesome.
Were you typing as you were riding?

 

No they're great. I've got one in the home gym and use it all the time. I thought about getting one for the office too - you're right about the space though, the bike is just a bit more practical.

Looks like you can get under the desk elipticals

Cheers

Jamie

 

Oh wow... had no idea they existed! Just looked them up on Google... I think I need one

 

I did say try

Last night I did 100 but with 22 m (length of helideck) sprints between sets of 5 . Great way to get to max heart rate.

 

You need the keyboard to sign in, and you can talk to other riders in 'chat' and give them Kudos etc.

pinkboy

 

Yeah I reckon it's a great idea - just something to get the blood flowing/body moving while at the desk.

 

Having trouble finding local options though

 

A good opportunity

 

Have you considered some step up boxes?


For me, the biggest problem with desk sitting is shoulders though, so I would add something like this into my routine in conjunction with the box step up:

image 1 is start position
image 2 as you step up
image 3 on top of the box
image 4 as you step down
image 5 finishing position

Just remember to switch your leading leg on alternate step ups. I reckon it would take a bit of coordination. I'm going to try it.

 

@Simon Hampel is on the money with the height-adjustable desk.

 

Burpees??

 

I was scrolling down to say exactly the same thing. A few step ups every hour.

Forget an exercise bike.

 

Spin bikes are a part of my normal exercise routine - I probably wouldn't only go on one for <30 mins however.

There's some OK bikes which float in quality level between basic amateur and commercial grade, like the Vortec 900's (Sub 1k all up).

Go for a run around the block instead mate.