Variety, spice, and that kind of stuff

[jducoeur]

Roight -- when my complaint is, "Damn, I'm bored with the elliptical machine", the correct response is to pull out the DDR pad instead. Less intense from a cardio POV, but a better full-body workout, and a great way to shake off exercise boredom. It's been over a month since I last used it, and I find that I really *missed* that. (Doesn't hurt that the break has gone and popped me up a quarter-step, either -- pushed several more songs into A or AA. Sometime soon, I'm going to have to give up on Light and move into Standard...)

Comments

[adespota.livejournal.com]

Aah, I miss DDR, I haven't played it in a year! You really do work up quite a sweat on Heavy, and it's so much more interesting than running on a treadmill. How many calories do you actually burn on Light?

[jducoeur]

Certainly fewer than on Heavy, and fewer than I burn on the elliptical. But I'm working up a decent sweat, so I'm reasonably sure that it's real exercise, and I'm using my upper body a lot more than I do on the elliptical. And getting some variety in my exercise regimen is good for me. So it's a not-very-guilty pleasure...

[yukirien.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to convince my parents that we'd all get more exercise if we just bought DDR; it's much cheaper than the gym membership she has that she never goes to, but the idea never took hold.

[jducoeur]

Yeah; I used to have a gym membership, but even when I was forcing myself to go regularly I never really *enjoyed* it. So I've spent the past year building myself a regimen that I actually like enough to do regularly. (Elliptical with my DVD collection, plus DDR, so far. Someday we will hopefully have somewhere to put a Bowflex, and I'll really be set.)