Did I say that? (It sure sounds like something I would say.) Howdy yourself!
OK, now I’m curious.
Why?
You need to get a new gym.
20 minutes on a tread mill? Hell, you can’t even enjoy a second wind. You get to slog through the worst part of running.
I do ellipticalls on occasion, just to change up the muscles getting worked. Don’t be so quick to dismiss those infernal machines. You’ll feel it the next day if you give it a good go. But I agree. Running is preferred.
No. it’s gay if you only use your towel as a scarf instead of tying it around your waste.
Please don’t hurt yourself with all that backpeadeling.
You live such a hard life.
Whoops, hit the submit too quickly. I certainly have no problem with someone choosing not to engage in any dangerous exercise.
The backpeadeling comment still stands though.
I use the elliptical trainer all the time. I prefer to run on the trails up the mountain behind campus, but for someone with chronic knee problems, that’s something you do once and only once. Then you writhe in pain for the next three days. Treadmills are better, but I’m only 18 and would like to still have functioning knees by the age of 30. So, the elliptical or a stairclimber.
But, I’m a woman. Am I still gay? Or is it just the machine itself that’s gay? Is it only attracted to other ellipticals? Or something of that sort?
Dude, that’s disgusting! Use TP like everyone else.
A few things.
1.) Eliptical running machines are ZERO IMPACT. The only thing better for someone with ailing knees is running in the pool.
2.) Tracks will have less impact than a treadmill. Even the really good treadmills with the springs so it has some give. Unless the track is paved or concrete, even a cinder track should have more give than the average treadmill, and a rubber track is best of all.
3.) The stationary bike, while it has some uses, is probably the most useless of all of the indoor cardio machines. A bicycle, just by it’s design, is a machine that almost never, ever, lets you go into oxygen debt. Your sitting on your ass, working nothing but your legs and lungs, but not nearly as well as running or swimming.
So you’re an idiot, and an uneducated one at that. Go figure.
I can easily get to and maintain my target heart rate without grunting or sweating profusely. (After 45 minutes on the bike or walking on the treadmill, I’m damp, not wet. I can comfortably drive home without changing or showering without feeling gross.) I have no idea what grunting has to do with anything, and surely you must recognize that everyone sweats at different rates. This is a generalization just as much as the OPs, just without all the homophobia and stupidity and annoying-ness and the glayvin! and whatnot.
Perhaps it’s all psychological, but my gimpy knee cannot handle 2 miles on the indoor track at my gym (I think it’s rubberized, I don’t know from track materiel though) but 2 miles on a treadmill – walking – doesn’t hurt even 1/4 as much. To get up to my target heart rate and get in the miles I want, I need a treadmill or very soft earth (i.e. grass on lightly packed dirt).
Spoken like someone who has never taken a spinning class.
That shit is anti-semantic – 80’s style [sic].
Hey Trunk, care to actually explain why you think the eliptical is gay? I mean, what exactly about it makes it gay? How can a piece of excercise equipment have a sexual orientation?
By the way, you’re one of the biggest assholes I’ve seen on the boards in a while. :wally
When I was doing rehab for my latest knee surgery (#3 and counting!), my physical therapist had me walk *backwards * on a treadmill at a very slow pace.
Where does *that * put me on the **Trunk ** axis of gay evildoers?
Do I make it onto The List?
When I go to the gym, I use the elliptical machine and I walk on the treadmill. Dontcha just fucking hate me?
I do use the lists, though. The treadmill (at 11% incline) and the elliptical are the two ways in which I can best get my heart rate up without losing my breath, and since I have exercise-induced asthma, that’s my main concern. Wanna build me a track with an 11% incline?
::checks Idiotic Homophobe Manual::
Spiff, you are at the level of Harvey Fierstein Irritant. Basically you’re more annoying than malevolent, but you still scored high enough on the Malicious Meter to be in the manual. Knee surgeries are very campy–nothing screams “I’m gay!” like wearing a bandage or a brace around your knee and limping. Walking backwards is just plain sinister, and we can tell you’re up to no good. It’s people like you that are undermining my heterosexual relationships.
God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and … Walk-Backwards Guy!
I gotta hand it to Trunk, this anti-gay anti-injury rhetoric is harder than it looks
Just so you know, Jeshua and I were kicking it on the eliptical the other day, and I mentioned you.
He says your a fucktard, and once you come out you’ll feel much better.
Then he kicked it up to 20 and kicked my ass. Dang it.
Jesus is such a show off.
Whaddaya mean “maybe”? Damn straight, the rowing machine isn’t lame. It’s the only real workout machine in the gym. (exercise bike? only if you’re scared of sweating) If you’re so worried about getting your heart rate up without impact, why don’t you use one? There’s never a line and nothing else in the gym will make you work harder. Try to keep your split at 2:00 for 30 minutes and then come back and tell me how lame the erg is…
Check post #48. It’s all a joke. That’s it. Joke. You dunces JUST DON’T GET IT.
My gym has either enough cardio machines or a low enough enrollment that we don’t have Lists. I’m probably unwittingly subjecting myself to gender confusion because of this.
Yep, that’s the way I read it. The whole OP was over-the-top in a Jay-and-Silent-Bob/Jim Anchower sort of way.