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| Benefits of Exercise Bikes |  Exercise and Treadmills
You have decided you want to exercise at home. Nowadays hundreds of pieces of home cardio equipment are available. Treadmills and exercise bikes are the most popular. In choosing between the two, you should compare long-term sustainability, the effectiveness of the workouts, and safety.
Overcoming Boredom
The biggest barrier for a home exercise routine is sticking with it. Inasmuch as you don’t have to waste much time for getting to a gym, your home fitness equipment is more convenient. Nevertheless, the other problem is present. The point is that the other distractions are just as convenient at home. You simply have to make your exercise routine fun. For example, playing with the heart rate monitor or watching the calorie counter go up will only be fun the first couple of times you exercise.
Treadmill and Boredom
On a treadmill, you walk. And as you know, walking is not that fun. Of course, you can walk at different speeds, but that isn’t really much more fun. If you have a treadmill that offers an incline, that keeps it a bit more interesting. But walking uphill isn’t exactly fun, it is simply different. It presents a challenge.
You can’t really read on a treadmill because of one simple reason – you are bouncing up and down while walking. Therefore, you can’t keep your eyes on the same level, and this usually ends with a headache. For the most part, the only thing fun you can do on a treadmill is watch television or movies. You can put your treadmill in front of a television, and thus you can probably keep your treadmill workout from becoming too boring. But there are some problems like commercials, the noise coming from the machine, and again, the bouncing.
Exercise Bikes and Boredom
Exercise bikes are unique. You simulate different courses that require you to sprint, pedal uphill, and perform at different levels within one workout without having to keep pressing buttons and changing everything. You can even choose casual programs so you don’t know what’s coming, which really keeps you on your toes.
On upright exercise bikes, you face with some of the same problems as treadmills, such as reading. However, recumbent bikes allow your hands to be free to hold a book or magazine, video game controller, or phone. Multi-tasking during an exercise bike workout keeps it from becoming boring and allows your workout to more easily fit into a busy schedule.
Overcoming boredom to successfully keep up a long-term exercise routine is much easier with an exercise bike than a treadmill.
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