I go to the gym fairly frequently where I work. I love the fact that, if I have the time and don’t have to run errands on my lunch, my workplace offers me the option of getting may workout in. I sometimes will make it there twice a week out of my four day work week, and sometimes I make it there three.

I’ve created a new informational page on comparing the types of exercise bikes, and the various brands that are available or popular for these types of exercise bikes. There are two general types of exercise bikes for the home, and the one you like best really depends on what you’re looking for comfort wise and how hard of a workout you want.

You can get a good workout with either the upright, conventional exercise bike and the recumbent bike, which allows you to recline back and be more comfortable, however uprights typically can really bust your butt, so to speak, when it comes to working out, and they are the type that is used in the notoriously hard and challenging spinning classes that are so popular amongst huge fitness enthusiasts.

I went to the gym that we have at my job, which again, I feel so lucky to be able to have access to this priceless stress reliever at work. Words cannot describe how invaluable it has been for me at times.  I got on the good old recumbent bike, expecting to just go through my ho hum but still stress busting workout without really breaking a huge sweat, but I decided to put this recumbent bike, which was one I rarely have the chance to get on because usually someone else is occupying it when I come out of the dressing room, on a mode that I hadn’t tried yet, fat burning mode.

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.

I’m thinking that I want to add another piece of exercise equipment to our downstairs home gym, and I was thinking the perfect complement to what we already have would be a recumbent bike, since we don’t really have any other cardio equipment that would work the legs and buttocks quite the same way, and allow you to sit there and read a book all at the same time!

Well, it may not have been a recumbent bike, as I think there are different style exercise bikes that are used for spinning classes in gyms (I’ve never been to a spinning class personally, can you tell?), but a man claims that he was assaulted while he was on his spinning bike in a spinning class in a gym in Manhattan by another gym patron.

We’ve all used regular stationary bikes and are familiar with them. There’a now a lot of attention about recumbent exercise bikes. The way they are different from the traditional exercise bike is that the rider is situated against a backrest with their legs in front of them. The advantage of this position is that many people find this to be more comfortable for a longer workout than the upright position.