treadmill or exercycle?

What do you all find has worked best for weight loss, treadmill or exercycle? I gotta get back into wt loss, and during cold winter months I just can not get motivated to exercise outdoors or even drive to the gym.
I live in nothern minnesota -- very cold for several months. I figure I can exercise while watching a movie-- but treadmill or exercycle?
Exercycle takes less concentration (won't trip and fall off like a treadmill when watching a movie), but I suppose treadmill burns more cals?
Of course when weather warms, I love walking and hiking and biking outdoors. Thoughts? Advice?

I couldn't even begin to know. All I've noticed is that guys don't tend to have too many low self-esteem problems compared to women, unless you count having too much self-esteem a problem. If you pay them any attention, they think it's because they're irresistable studs. Obviously there are many exceptions to this and plenty of wonderful men out there. DH is so clueless to women hitting on him that it cracks me up. When I was fat, women would hit on him right in front of me - even waitresses though they were probably looking for a bigger tip. They do it now, but more often when I'm in the restroom.

That's the way I felt about being fat/having bad hair. It was a kindness to the people who cared how they looked 'cuz they got to look better than me.

In 1995 when I lost a lot of weight I used an excercise bike for 20 minutes every day, but it wasn't the plain kind. It was one of those with a fan for a wheel and the handle bars that moved, too. That way
I got a full-body workout, legs AND arms, and it really worked great.

"JMA" wrote

Waiting is.

I've tried my sister's Nordic Trak twice and hurt my back both times. (in fairness, I had no clue what I was doing and it was before I had ever started losing weight)

I wish my treadmill had a cumulative mileage counter. It would be fun to see those zeros turn over <g>

I use the elliptical more when my knee is bothering me or lately because I have a sinus infection and running gives me a major headache. I can stay steady for at least an hour at level 10-12 (I go up and down every 5 minutes), but going backwards really puts a strain on my quads - though I try to do 2 minutes backward every 10 minutes. I haven't been doing much on the bike lately since I like the elliptical more. I was thinking of getting one of those polar heart monitors since all of the machines where I go can use them. Only the treadmill has the HR monitor in the handlebar and you can't or shouldn't grab it when you're running 6-7 mph.

Walking on the treadmill I've been doing a "rolling hills" workout I got from a magazine. It's interesting in that you change the incline and speed every 2 minutes mostly staying in the 3.7-3.9 mph range and 5-8% incline.
It's nice on my non-running days when the elliptical is busy, but frustrating nonetheless because I still don't care for walking and prefer to run .

It's a combination of both. I live in small town that's among a number of other small towns and everyone knows everyone so going out to the bars I'm always running into someone I know and haven't seen in forever. It's not a bad thing, I just needed a break from having the whole diet conversation with someone new for the 243rd time and because it is such a big deal that attempts I make to change the subject ("enough about me, how are *you* doing these days blah blah blah) always get steered back to the diet.

We're also a tourist mecca so we get lots of people from out of town on the weekends but it's disproportionately male. The attention from guys is only new in that they seem to be more persistent than when I was fat. When I was fat, I could shut someone down pretty quickly and politely - end of story.
Nowadays I start with polite, then turn a little bitchy and that doesn't seem to be enough so I guess it's ok to be a bitch if you're normal sized and cute. I'm only talking about guys who continue to hit on me after seeing my wedding ring and hearing me say "my husband" in every other sentence. I am referring to the touchy-feely, "lemme call you," "let's go somewhere else," drunk &amp; stupid types.

I never mind having a good conversation with a guy who is just looking for someone to talk to and I've had plenty of those too.

Treadmills win hands-down at health clubs. They take up more space and cost more tho. For bikes try a recumbant model - no pressure on the butt. Be prepared to spend $$ for a good model of either. If you have $$ another great choice is an EFX machine (elliptical trainer).

This kind of reminds me of that Average Joe episode where the woman put on the fat suit and pretended to be her cousin. One of the guys referred to her as the DUFF (designated ugly fat friend). A friend at work thought that explained why I don't hang out with some of the people I used to, because
I'm no longer their DUFF, I'm competition. She did point out that I tend to flash my wedding rings a lot when guys start talking to me so I'm not really competing

Some types of multi-tasking should never be tried <g> Hope you didn't hurt yourself.

"JMA" wrote

Ditto ditto It's dark at 4:10 right now. That's already 10 minutes better than the shortest day you outdoor fiends!

I got some great Columbia snowpants last winter on eBay. Now I'm praying
I'll get to use them this year.

This is why I am waiting before buying another machine. I had a Nordic Trak and while most people like it, I hated it and had never tried one before buying it. Sold that and got a Gazelle. It was nice when I was just starting out, but once I got into running, I never touched it again. Just sold it yesterday. I'm waiting patiently to see whether I should go for the treadmill or the elliptical. Right now it's considerably cheaper for me to keep going to the fitness center that I go to and have access to both machines and it gets me out of the house on weekends and holidays. In a month's time I've put 40 miles on the treadmill (running and walking) and 35 miles on the elliptical.

LOL Mary! That beats my leaning forward to read the next setting from my list and sorta just stopping - though the belt was still going. I have my workouts on paper but apparently I need to rewrite them larger or wear my reading glasses during my workout.

Oh, go away.

I agree with this, and so does Consumer Reports. A NordicTrack is great value for the money: an excellent NordicTrack is less money than a crappy Treadmill, for example. It folds up, it's challenging and hard work and great exercise. I've used one for a dozen years. (I keep trading up models.)

I also have a step bench and a whole bunch of videos and DVDs from www.collagevideo.com that I use for cross-training in the winter.

At the gym I often do a mini-triathalon on the recumbant bike, Concept
II rowing machine and the elliptical cross-trainer on days when I'm not running. I don't like the bike or the rowing machine enough to make them my regular exercise, though.

I keep track of my mileage in my runner's log. I have a program for my palm that tracks a lot of data for running. I am able to differentiate between the treadmill and regular running and summarize my data in a few clicks. I have to keep track of the mileage on my shoes because it's good practice to change shoes every 300 miles or so. I like seeing the gradual improvement in my speed over the months.
It will also do walking, biking, and any other exercise I want so I was able to set it up to keep track of the elliptical too.
Started using the log on 7/28 - I've run 188 miles since then.

(Jayjay) wrote

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I second that. I walked nearly a year before I bought my treadmill. I wanted to be sure it wasn't a passing fling. I waited till I was heartbroken over not being able to walk after supper because it got dark at 3:30. Then I boutght the best one I could afford. I haven't been sorry one minute.

"JMA" wrote

LOL <knocking on wood> I'm *very* careful taking my shirt off over my head! I fumbled my water once but knew better than to try to catch it.

I have a treadmill and a stair climber in my home. We never use the treadmill and I use the stair climber daily. I can tell you that a lot of folks don't like the stair climber because it's not a natural motion like walking is. My experience is that you burn more calories on a stair climber than a treadmill. Your going to get different answers from different folks, but I like a stair climber also called a stair master. I'm able to workout for an hour at a time and get a good sweat going as well. My calorie counter is usually between 750 to 1000 calories when I finish.

The elliptical exercise equipment is one I've never tried, but would like to one day. To me it's like a stair climber and a treadmill built in one machine. and looks like it would produce more calories burned compared to a treadmill.

I hope you find what's best for you and your goals.

We have a ski machine that has poles instead of cords and I love it. I did
25 minutes on it just about an hour ago and according to http://www.caloriesperhour.com/ I burned 261 calories. I worked up quite a sweat. We paid about $100 for it several years ago at Play It Again Sports.
I don't remember having any problems learning to use it.

Feb-Apr: Jogging. Weight lost: 0 lbs.
May-Jul: Jogging with 20kg barbells. Weigth lost: 5 lbs.
Aug-Sep: No jogging; eating lots of vitamines. Weight lost: 0 lbs.
Oct-present: Ephedra; no exercize at all. Weight lost: 50 lbs.

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He states his wife has been using this product to lose weight. If that's her picture on the website it appears it hasn't been working for her. Many

bigger benefits from the old "eat less, exercise more" method.

ps - be sure you delete the spammers website next time <g> .