How The Exercise Bike Has Changed
That just tells you how long it has been since I last exercised. Jeez, am I getting fat or what. It's not that I hate exercise or I am too lazy ( well just a little ) but I like to exercise with equipment that is fun to use like an exercise bike. It is usually around the New Year that I begin noticing how fat I’ve become. The holiday season goes very well for me, in fact so well, that towards the draw of the New Year, I often have to deal with a spare tire around my midriff. It is at times like these that I am tempted to buy an exercise bike. I got my first exercise bike over a decade ago. It was a fairly simple piece of machinery. It looked like one half of a regular bike. And it was mechanically operated, with a simple belted-up gear contraption that you tightened by hand as you went along.
I spent more time staring at that first exercise bike than actually using it for what it was meant and it slowly but steadily faded away from my memory. Until this New Year came about and I decided to get myself another exercise bike. There’s a health and fitness store just around the corner from where I live and I went there to seek out my exercise bike. Upon entering and asking the manager where the exercise bike section was, I was guided to the second floor of the store, where – I’m not kidding – the entire floor area was devoted to exercise bikes! Boy had I missed out on the exercise bike trend or what! But what I discovered next convinced me that I was too far removed from the exercise bike culture to ever hope to stage a comeback.
The new age exercise bikes were radically different beings. For one thing, the word ‘simplicity’ or the phrase ‘ease of use’ seemed to have been thrown out of the window when these new age exercise bikes were designed. None, I repeat, none of them were simple to understand, much less operate. There were exercise bikes with motorized resistance, bikes with magnetic resistance, even more exercise bikes with wind load resistance and even friction-free resistance! What ever happened to the plain old resistance belt? Anyways, that was just the tip of the iceberg. There were several brands as well like the Reebox Exercise bike and the Lifecycle Exercise bike.
Anyways, they needed a power source to run the array of sensors that the exercise bike employed to monitor various bodily functions and rates. Most of them had a digital display LCD, electronic monitor charts for time, speed, distance and calories, pulse monitors, heart-rate monitors and a whole range of allied equipment. This made me wonder. If I was going to spend all my time hooking up these allied monitors to various extremities of my body, where was I ever going to find the time to actually get on to the exercise bike and… exercise? Well actually it was very easy to hook up, the manual that came with it was laid out so simply my 8yr old granddaughter could have done it. Suffice to say I just love my brand new shiny stationary exercise bike. Resource Exercise Equipment - Choose from our wide selection of high quality exercise mats, exercise equipment mats, yoga supplies, gymnastics equipment, and various other exercise products and accessories. Stationary Exercise Bikes - An exercise bike is gentle on the low back. Many people with low back pain have trouble finding the right form of exercise that provides a good aerobic workout and is still gentle enough for their back. Aerobic exercise helps to condition and strengthen the muscles and keep the spinal structures healthy, which in turn helps to reduce back pain. In addition, there is research indicating that doing exercise on stationary bikes may actually reduce some patients’ perception of chronic low back pain.
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