Question...

[telophase]

Does anyone here have any recommendations for compact, small cardio exercise equipment? Something that takes up space in use, but which easily folds away, like those treadmills that can fold up, is also an option. (No non-recumbent bikes, plz, those things hurt me!)

I'm just looking at things that take significantly less floorspace than the recumbent bikes. My current bike needs about 6' x 3.5' of space.

Comments

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

None that actually work. :/

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Going through the Amazon reviews for Stamina brand compact/foldable machines seems to show it's a crapshoot - my bike is a Stamina and the only problems I had were (1) it was missing one screw when it came so I had to go to the hardware store to get it, and (2) the electronic display crapped out after a couple of months, but I don't much care about that.

But the reviews alternate between mostly people thinking they're pretty good for the price, and people who got bad machines out of the box. Hm.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I heard somewhere that most people don't actually use their machines (of whatever kind), so many times they're only built for like five uses. That's always made me wonder. My own recumbent bike's electronic display died early on and it just doesn't work properly. I decided not to move it, because I'm going to switch to swimming instead.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That might explain it. XD At any rate, we actually use our bikes! We might just have to go to a used equipment store and see if they have anything that is compact or fold away that we can try out.