I did ask earlier and I think it was stuffed down behind the cushions...I'm thinking of getting an exercise bike and wondered if any of you have one and what would you recommend please...
I have asthma/COPD stage 4...oxygen 24 hours a day...
Any advice welcome...thank you
Vashti, do you have room for an exercise bike at home. Frankly, I haven't. I have invested in the gym for £23 a month with unlimited use of the gym. I find it a better solution, because all the equipment is there and there are coaches who can help you if you need assistance. Hope this helps.
We haven't the room really helingmic...there is a gym in town but the women who go to it are all incredibly fit!
On the subject of exercise bikes Vashti, I have one but no longer use it . I prefer to go out for exercise if possible. One issue is whether you have room, another is whether you can manage getting on and off with your oxygen on without supervision/help. If you can get to a local gym it might be saver. Anyway if you do decide on it take some advice on which bike would be best for you and take it slowly on the exercise, small steps at a time and build up.
Thanks Katie...I think Sonia came up with a solution actually...!
Yes that's another option from Sonia. So let us know how you get on Vashti.
Hi vashti, I bought the cycle pedals like they use at rehab, u can sit on a normal chair ( bike seats hurt ur bum I think) and it was cheap, takes up no room and I can go on it as often as I like. X Sonia x
Oh thanks, Sonia -I didn't know about these pedals and looked them up on the net and may well buy a pair. They look like they could be a great help for the winter <3
I've just looked them up and they look ideal...especially space wise! Good thinking Sonia...thank you!
oh now any exercise you can do in front of the tv is my kind of exercise x x x
Mine to, before I was Ill I liked lazy exercise and even more so now lol. X Sonia x
i wonder if that bike would work laying in bed reading ha ha
Mine does , I always do it on the bed watching tv , keeps moving down the bed but an extra sit up being done pulling it back in place lmao all counts in my book. X Sonia x
ha ha ha we really are sisters x x
We are, suits me sis. X xxx
I have an exercise bike Vashti but I don't use it very often. I got it free from someone who didn't have room for it. It doesn't take up too much room but people tend to drop coats, laundry etc., on it. As exercise, I find it good in the sense that it doesn't make me breathless but it tends to make my back and shoulders ache. Before you make a decision it would be good if you could try one out first to see if it suited you. On the plus side, it's always there and you can exercise on it whatever the weather. Also, look out for a secondhand one becsuse lots of people buy them on impulse and then don't have room for them.
I'm still at the thinking about it stage...oddly enough there is one advertised for sale locally so I'll go and have a look at it
I have a bike you can ride it if you like .I found it as close to usless all it did was make my bum sore . what I do now is walk round the block using a wheel chair as a zimmer frame
Send it over Tobydoo...lol
I have a exercise bike and go on every the weather gets to cld or if it is to wet to go out I have it in my room and I look out to the country side which is beautiful especially on a old or wet day I would not be without it I too am on oxygen and it is no problem at all if weather is good a just go out for a nice walk in steed
I'm still thinking about it Jimmy!
The exercise bikes are ok but there is one thing apart from the cost and size, that folk over look.....they are boring. So, Ok, you think, I will set it up in front of the tele and guess what...it's still boring. Save your money, go for house hold exercises if you can't get out.....they are listed on BLF website.....use empty coke bottles, cans of peas, anything to add a little variety. During bad weather, I use a Wii box....play sword fencing, basket ball, tennis, ten pin bowling and some of the games you can link together over the internet and play someone you have never met. Everything that involves a little exercise is good, especially if it's cheap or free but you also need fresh air....a means to get out of the house, clear the cabin fever. Have you thought of an electric bike? Pedal it if you can, if not select motor assist and when worn out select motor only to get you home. Great to get off and walk gently beside and best of all, if you get SOB, you have a bike to lean on while you recover. I find it great because no one thinks anything strange about a fella, leaning over his bike, taking in the view....so no one staring whilst you gulp down your ration of fresh air. Get a carrier too for oxygen bottle.
My biggest problem is the weather...lol...it rains in Ireland...a lot!
You can combine you know. Wii or other indoor exercises when the weather is bad and outdoors when it's fine. Rain doesn't bother me so much as hot weather and wind. I can dress up against the cold and wet but when I am hot, I am jiggered. I've had a massive area of skin cancer treated this year...it was over half of my back and so I am allowed no sunshine on my skin for 5 years. Have to wear factor 50 even in winter and so this year I have been cooked....long sleeve shirts and trousers......Rain....luckily for me, when I was born I was born with waterproof skin. If I go out and get wet, what better than getting home, nice hot shower or bath, dry off and dry warm clothes on.
I agree with Jimmy I think if you go to a local gym it gets you out and you meet people it also motivates you I have thought about buying a bike but it would be just another thing to collect dust
A bit late with this but here goes my tale of woe and misery involving gyms. A group of ex PR chaps and chapess's were give a referral to our local gym so that we could continue with the exercise. However, it proved to be our downfall. These "Full time, I want to be fit" athletic tpe people first of all don't like the smell of their own perspiration and so after every piece of equipment, out came the can of body spray and we were now gagging for breath. The worse part we all found was that these type of keep fitters, don't give up when they have a cold or feel unwell....and so we all kept coming down with infections. That's when we decided home based or out doors it would have to be. I arrived at the gym one day, earlier than usual, to find it impossible to breath in the foyer due to a party of school kids leaving the swimming pool and the smell of chlorine etc filling the area.
Hi Brian I know what you mean the ones who run a 100 mph on the tread mill I get the urge to trip them up this is why I use the pool they don't use tat nasty bleach to clean ours you can hardly smell anything.
Hope you well
It wouldn't suit many of us would it? And the sprays they use don't even smell nice!
Hi Vashti
I was given a second hand one last year and if I only manage 2 minutes a day I try. Any exercise is better than none.
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