When I go to the gym at the workplace, which I’m constantly thanking my lucky stars to have, otherwise my eleven hour days 4 days a week may end up driving me crazy without a nice little workout in the middle of the day to help me through, I sometimes will split my time between the recumbent exercise bike and the elliptical machines there, just so that I can get a little reading time in without the jostling and movement of the elliptical.
The elliptical is ok to read on, but even though your head movement is limited on it, your head does still move, so your head is bobbing up and down as you’re reading, and the light also tends to shine in different places depending on where your head is at that particular second on an elliptical or a treadmill, so it can be kind of hard to read in the areas where the glare is at those times.
Recumbent bikes (see recumbent reviews for the best bikes) are great machines to work out on, as I do believe that they help to tone the buttocks a lot because of the downward movement of the back of the legs and the buttocks muscles, however, I do think that they have to be split between that and a standup workout machine, because of the fact that you are, after all, still sitting in the end, even if your butt is getting a bit of a workout from the strain of pushing down.
If you want to do some heavy reading, the recumbent bike is way better than other cardio exercise machines though, because you are at a steady stance, and you can read in depth without being jerked around because of the movement of the pedals or of your own feet. That’s my opinion, and actually I just brought it up because a friend of mine asked me the other day how in the world I could read on an elliptical, to which I responded, well I do read on it, but it’s not as easy or user friendly as it is when you’re on the recumbent bike!
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