Comments on: How To Have Too Much Fun On An Exercise Bike http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-have-too-much-fun-on-an-exercise-bike/ ...on aging with strength and beauty Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Christine Scaman http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-have-too-much-fun-on-an-exercise-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-922 Christine Scaman Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:53:29 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=1376#comment-922 Hi, Sharon, I'm the same with the over-the-top workouts. What happens next is that my body dreams up some silly medical problem and checks me out of my life for 2-3 weeks. It's like " OK, sister, if you won't sit on the bench, then I'll take you out of the game and you'll have no choice!" Women and horses. Girls and horses. There is something there. I rode (English) for all my teenage years. I had a horse while I was having kids too, but a couple of injuries that could have been a lot worse convinced me to sell him. Hi, Sharon,

I’m the same with the over-the-top workouts. What happens next is that my body dreams up some silly medical problem and checks me out of my life for 2-3 weeks. It’s like ” OK, sister, if you won’t sit on the bench, then I’ll take you out of the game and you’ll have no choice!”

Women and horses. Girls and horses. There is something there. I rode (English) for all my teenage years. I had a horse while I was having kids too, but a couple of injuries that could have been a lot worse convinced me to sell him.

]]> By: sharon jones http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-have-too-much-fun-on-an-exercise-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-901 sharon jones Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:28:18 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=1376#comment-901 Hi Christine, You're so right about stop waiting for perfect. I used to push myself on the elliptical trainer, going hard hard hard for 45 minutes, the sweat pouring off me. I did that 4 times a week as well as strength trained in the hope it would enable me to eat as much as I wanted, alas it did not and when I quit smoking in 1999 I piled on about 25 lbs, whilst still working out. It took me about 6 years to finally lose the weight. I still yo-yo in the winter but the riding definitely keeps me fit. Interestingly at the ranch where I keep my horses and where I operate my business from, it's 90% women! There's a special relationship between women and horses so it seems. We do have a couple of urban cowboys and when I have groups out the men enjoy it as much as the women. Do you ride? Hi Christine,
You’re so right about stop waiting for perfect. I used to push myself on the elliptical trainer, going hard hard hard for 45 minutes, the sweat pouring off me. I did that 4 times a week as well as strength trained in the hope it would enable me to eat as much as I wanted, alas it did not and when I quit smoking in 1999 I piled on about 25 lbs, whilst still working out.

It took me about 6 years to finally lose the weight. I still yo-yo in the winter but the riding definitely keeps me fit.

Interestingly at the ranch where I keep my horses and where I operate my business from, it’s 90% women! There’s a special relationship between women and horses so it seems.

We do have a couple of urban cowboys and when I have groups out the men enjoy it as much as the women.

Do you ride?

]]> By: Christine Scaman http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-have-too-much-fun-on-an-exercise-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-899 Christine Scaman Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:46:06 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=1376#comment-899 Hi, Sharon, I was asked once what the best exercise is for toning up. The answer is, of course, the one you'll enjoy enough to do 5 times a week. It doesn't matter what you do, just stop waiting for perfect and do something!! Not every day needs to be a marathon day - getting out of breath for a little while every day is all it really takes. Your business idea is quite inspired. I think, for most people, the idea of being out on horseback epitomizes an ultimate freedom from the rat race. Maybe this is especially true for men, since it awakens their inner cowboy. Hi, Sharon,

I was asked once what the best exercise is for toning up. The answer is, of course, the one you’ll enjoy enough to do 5 times a week. It doesn’t matter what you do, just stop waiting for perfect and do something!! Not every day needs to be a marathon day – getting out of breath for a little while every day is all it really takes.

Your business idea is quite inspired. I think, for most people, the idea of being out on horseback epitomizes an ultimate freedom from the rat race. Maybe this is especially true for men, since it awakens their inner cowboy.

]]> By: sharon jones http://www.agreenertea.com/how-to-have-too-much-fun-on-an-exercise-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-898 sharon jones Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:29:32 +0000 http://www.agreenertea.com/?p=1376#comment-898 I agree whole heartedly about finding an exercise you LOVE. I had a personal trainer for years, did the gym thing, then when I moved in with my now husband, we built a gym in the spare bedroom. I mixed it up with step aerobics, pilates, yoga, floor aerobics (all usind tapes and DVD's). However, boredom did set in and excuses emerged. Riding a bike didn't do it for me either. So I started doing what I loved as a child in England - horse riding. That started in 2003. Now I spend hours in the saddle and have the strongest abs and glutes and inner thighs - all of which help my titanium hip (I had it replaced in 2004) stay stable and strong. I also work at the ranch as a trail guide and I am strong everywhere else because of the lifting saddles etc., and when you're working hard on a horse training it, you get a cardio workout too! So, the theme again - find what you love to do and it's not 'working out' any more. I even run a business called "Breath of Fesh Air' in the GTA area designed to get corporate bums out of rooms and into the fresh air on a horse. I love it! I agree whole heartedly about finding an exercise you LOVE. I had a personal trainer for years, did the gym thing, then when I moved in with my now husband, we built a gym in the spare bedroom. I mixed it up with step aerobics, pilates, yoga, floor aerobics (all usind tapes and DVD’s). However, boredom did set in and excuses emerged. Riding a bike didn’t do it for me either. So I started doing what I loved as a child in England – horse riding. That started in 2003. Now I spend hours in the saddle and have the strongest abs and glutes and inner thighs – all of which help my titanium hip (I had it replaced in 2004) stay stable and strong. I also work at the ranch as a trail guide and I am strong everywhere else because of the lifting saddles etc., and when you’re working hard on a horse training it, you get a cardio workout too! So, the theme again – find what you love to do and it’s not ‘working out’ any more. I even run a business called “Breath of Fesh Air’ in the GTA area designed to get corporate bums out of rooms and into the fresh air on a horse. I love it!

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