Exercise Bike

[Wayne J]

Following a year when I have not been able to do any meaningful exercise at all, and it shows, on an impulse I've bought an exercise bike.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D5HHRC7N?ref_=ppx_hzod_title_dt_b_fed_asin_title_0_0&th=1

To try and stop it turning in to an expensive clothes horse, does anybody have any recommendations for apps to use alongside it? There are so many out there and pretty much all require subscriptions.

 

[Marvello]

I haven't got any App recommendations, but what I find helpful is finding anything to take your mind off the fact you are exercising. Reading, watching TV, listening to music etc. Sometimes if I'm concentrating on reading the time flies by without me realising I've been exercising.

 

[Wayne J]

I haven't got any App recommendations, but what I find helpful is finding anything to take your mind off the fact you are exercising. Reading, watching TV, listening to music etc. Sometimes if I'm concentrating on reading the time flies by without me realising I've been exercising.

If i don't find a suitable app, the plan is to watch an episode of something to act as a timer, I don't stop cycling until the episode finishes.

I remember playing DM, at he same time that ST first came out at the Belgian Open. It was set up with an exercise stepper - you had to keep stepping to keep power to the flippers. I got a replay, and was then absolutely f£*ked when I had played that. My legs had turned to jelly by the time I'd finished, but I had earned that replay so was going to play it

 

[Paul R Owen]

Real bike, on real roads?

 

[Wayne J]

Real bike, on real roads?

Hell no, nobody wants to see me in lycra!

 

[Tilt_Birmingham]

Hell no, nobody wants to see me in lycra!

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First thing we have agree on in years