nancy324
Cathlete
My husband recently bought me a great bicycle. I did some rides with him and wound up hurting my knee and my lower back and was unable to work out at all for several weeks. I had my seat checked out by experts 10 times and everyone said it was at the perfect height. We cancelled our plans to take a cycling vacation in the wine country of California. I am so bummed. Another bad cardio experience.
In my time, I've tried the stairmaster, the nordictrack machine, the elliptical trainer and the lifecycle and I was unable to get into my aerobic heart rate zone on any of them for more than a few minutes here and there. Step aerobics is great, but my gym doesn't give classes anymore and I discovered that I just don't enjoy sweating in my own living room. As for running, I think it's far too injurious to be worthwhile.
So, time and time again, year in and year out, I come back to walking on the treadmill at the gym. With the incline, it is so easy to get my heart rate just where I want it, and I like it as long as the music is right. For me, it's all about the music. I'm sure there are people at the gym who are looking at me funny when I go into my Saturday Night Fever walk and all my semi-dance moves, but what the heck, I'm not bothering anyone.
But I need a supply of fresh music, and this is not easy. I wind up buying CDs for a single song so I can transfer the song to my MP3 player. I wind up with shelves full of CDS I don't even like just because a single song gets me going on the treadmill.
It seems that most of the fitness music out there is not by the original artists, and is doctored to be at the desired bpm. So they will have all your favorite songs, slow and fast, on one CD at 135 bpm.
To me, this stuff is less motivating than silence.
Has anyone had experiences like mine and found a solution? Has anyone found a good website for purchasing fitness music, or found some other way of dealing with the music issue?
Thanks for any help!
-Nancy
In my time, I've tried the stairmaster, the nordictrack machine, the elliptical trainer and the lifecycle and I was unable to get into my aerobic heart rate zone on any of them for more than a few minutes here and there. Step aerobics is great, but my gym doesn't give classes anymore and I discovered that I just don't enjoy sweating in my own living room. As for running, I think it's far too injurious to be worthwhile.
So, time and time again, year in and year out, I come back to walking on the treadmill at the gym. With the incline, it is so easy to get my heart rate just where I want it, and I like it as long as the music is right. For me, it's all about the music. I'm sure there are people at the gym who are looking at me funny when I go into my Saturday Night Fever walk and all my semi-dance moves, but what the heck, I'm not bothering anyone.
But I need a supply of fresh music, and this is not easy. I wind up buying CDs for a single song so I can transfer the song to my MP3 player. I wind up with shelves full of CDS I don't even like just because a single song gets me going on the treadmill.
It seems that most of the fitness music out there is not by the original artists, and is doctored to be at the desired bpm. So they will have all your favorite songs, slow and fast, on one CD at 135 bpm.
To me, this stuff is less motivating than silence.
Has anyone had experiences like mine and found a solution? Has anyone found a good website for purchasing fitness music, or found some other way of dealing with the music issue?
Thanks for any help!
-Nancy
