Gym Follies pt. 1
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rangersylGetting Carded by the Elliptical Machine.
Does anyone else have this problem? I hate the elliptical machines.. I mean the exercise is okay (as long as you don't pedal backwards) but that silly exercise calculating computer is... annoying.
It nags. Yes it does.
So I get on the machine - and punch in my weight and age. Now, I just had a birthday, so I bite the bullet and plug in my current age. The computer calculates my ideal heart rate, which I have already surpassed because I've spent the previous twenty minutes lifting weights.
So before I even start, I get a message telling me to slow down. Sheesh.
I realize I'm a year older, but my cardio fitness really hasn't changed much between last week and today.
So I ignore the message to slow down, and just start doing my thing. Then I get a message to 'hold steady on the sensors'. Well it really doesn't matter what I do with the stupid sensors because I'm wearing a heart rate monitor which transmits my heartrate to the silly computer in the first place. The stupid machine would pick up my heart rate whether or not I had my hands on the sensors.
Sigh. So I ignore that message, too. But now every thirty seconds I get the 'slow down to lower heart rate' message followed by the 'hold steady on the sensors' message. So I can't even read the display which tracks my progress.
Having had enough of that, I force the machine to raise my target heart rate by raising the level.
But the machine then promptly overrides the heart rate I set, downwards.
I give up, and resign myself to get digitally nagged for the next thirty-two minutes.
Only at 30 minutes, I am told it's time for a two-minute cool-down.
Um, no... that's why I punched in 32 minutes. If I wanted to do a cool down after 30 minutes I would have plugged in 30 minutes and then cooled down. Arrgh!
Does the stairclimber argue with me? No. It just keeps chugging away and if I have an coronary, it's my fault. I don't have to fight the treadmill or the rowing machines, either. Nope, it's just the silly frou frou elliptical machine. Sigh.
Does anyone else have this problem? I hate the elliptical machines.. I mean the exercise is okay (as long as you don't pedal backwards) but that silly exercise calculating computer is... annoying.
It nags. Yes it does.
So I get on the machine - and punch in my weight and age. Now, I just had a birthday, so I bite the bullet and plug in my current age. The computer calculates my ideal heart rate, which I have already surpassed because I've spent the previous twenty minutes lifting weights.
So before I even start, I get a message telling me to slow down. Sheesh.
I realize I'm a year older, but my cardio fitness really hasn't changed much between last week and today.
So I ignore the message to slow down, and just start doing my thing. Then I get a message to 'hold steady on the sensors'. Well it really doesn't matter what I do with the stupid sensors because I'm wearing a heart rate monitor which transmits my heartrate to the silly computer in the first place. The stupid machine would pick up my heart rate whether or not I had my hands on the sensors.
Sigh. So I ignore that message, too. But now every thirty seconds I get the 'slow down to lower heart rate' message followed by the 'hold steady on the sensors' message. So I can't even read the display which tracks my progress.
Having had enough of that, I force the machine to raise my target heart rate by raising the level.
But the machine then promptly overrides the heart rate I set, downwards.
I give up, and resign myself to get digitally nagged for the next thirty-two minutes.
Only at 30 minutes, I am told it's time for a two-minute cool-down.
Um, no... that's why I punched in 32 minutes. If I wanted to do a cool down after 30 minutes I would have plugged in 30 minutes and then cooled down. Arrgh!
Does the stairclimber argue with me? No. It just keeps chugging away and if I have an coronary, it's my fault. I don't have to fight the treadmill or the rowing machines, either. Nope, it's just the silly frou frou elliptical machine. Sigh.
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Date: 2004-09-29 12:55 am (UTC)