Gym Discovery

Just to get this out of the way, when it comes to stationery bikes at the gym, I am a huge WUSS. Its the recumbent bike for me... sorry but my tush just cannot take the regular bike seat for more than 10-15 minutes at a time.

While I love my gym, its relatively small & there has been a large influx of new members lately. With all of the new people, I've had to make some changes to my normal routine of 30 minutes each of three different machines. For a long time, I've started with the bike, then done either the elliptical or StairMaster and ended with the rowing machine or treadmill. The one frustration with this has been getting my heart rate into a good fat burning zone on the bike. Yesterday, when I got to the gym it was packed, but there happened to be an empty elliptical so I started there instead. Then I went to the bike, with my heart rate already up in a good fat burning zone, it was easy to maintain that level throughout the 30 minutes on the bike. Why I didn't think of this before I don't know... maybe I just get too set in my routines sometimes.

That's my gym discovery of the week. This one simple switch, forced upon me by circumstance, led to burning an extra 100 calories... which doesn't sound like much... but thinking about it multiplied by days, weeks & months it'll add up. :)