What's your favorite piece of exercise equipment?

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I had an older elliptical but it wore out on me. I'm thinking of getting another one but my sister is trying to talk me into getting a recumbent exercise bike. She says their better for you. I'm checking into it.

What's your favorite piece of exercise equipment?
 

My favourite is my Dog!! LOLOL. I have a exercise bike (great for impressing visitors!)

I gave away the stair master, treadmill plus ??? since husband passed away as I prefer to be outdoors in the fresh air. If I need exercise equipment, the community gym is less than a mile away.
 
BC Flash said:
My favourite is my Dog!! LOLOL. I have a exercise bike (great for impressing visitors!)

I gave away the stair master, treadmill plus ??? since husband passed away as I prefer to be outdoors in the fresh air. If I need exercise equipment, the community gym is less than a mile away.
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same here .... love the outdoors and nature, and so does my dog
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My favourite piece of exercise euipment ..by far..is the swimming pool. I love to swim, ..but altho' I have a pool at my home in Spain I don't have one here.. so I don't get to swim here. The municipal pool is like swimming in a can of sardines, there's so many people at it so , sadly I don't go...

My next favourite is my Treadmill which I have here at home.. It really helps to get exercise when the weather is bad and I cant get out and walk..
 
Rebounder (mini trampoline). As I've mentioned before, I was crippled with knee problems for 2 years; I needed 2 canes just to cross the room. Typical knee exercises did not help. After 3 months of gentle exercise on the rebounder, I was no longer crippled. Quite unexpected.

I do a number of different moves (similar to an easy aerobics class), so it's not too boring.

Other exercises and equipment have their place, but the rebounder is my favorite/most important. 30 minutes a day.
 
Wigglestein said:
I recently used a Nu Step machine at PT and I love it.
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I used one of those for the first week I was out of knee surgery. It was good, gives you the motion of a bike without the stress on your legs. After a week I was able to do a recumbent bike without the hand assist. I am sure this machine made that possible, sooner anyway.
NorthernLight said:
Rebounder
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The thing pictured below is what they call a "rebounder" at my PT. They make me stand on one foot and throw a ball back and forth with it. I know what you mean though, when you look up rebounder on Google you find both.
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My adjustable chin bar. It's the kind that hangs in a doorway.

I don't do more than a few chin-ups, I mostly hang from it by my knees. First I set it so my neck and shoulders are on the floor, and that's to decompress my spine. Then I raise it so my head is not more than an inch above the floor so I can do a several torso twists, and then twist-and-hold a few times, and then a few verticle abdominal crunches where I do my best to pull my elbows up toward my hips.
 
Murrmurr: When one of my sons was a teen, a Chin Up bar was installed in the doorway to his room - he enjoyed (being a monkey) going in/out of his bedroom. The benefit, at nearly 50 years of age, he still find time to work out at a gym 3 or 4 times/week.
 


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