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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on February 08, 2006, 12:39:22 am

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: loulou on February 08, 2006, 12:39:22 am

Do you own/use any exercise apparatus? I have a airwalker, rowing machine, stepper and yes they are all  dismantled and under the bed.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 08:25:47 am

I have a mini trampoline but I only have time to use it at weekend. I also have a bike, if that counts, again which I ride at weekends. We have a fitness suite at work so I go there every weekday.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 08:28:22 am

Does a bed count 

I have 2 exercise DVD's

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: goldencup on February 08, 2006, 08:30:30 am

I have one of those stupid wheel things where you roll it forward and land flat on your face (interesting carpet burn).  Also an exercise bike (dismantled in the loft) and several fitness videos, all watched once while eating chocolate.  They didn't seem to work....

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 08:33:29 am

Quote from: goldencup

several fitness videos, all watched once while eating chocolate

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: kevvosa on February 08, 2006, 08:40:14 am

I have a treadmill thats also never used, some weights, push up bars
and recently threw out my exercise ball. It never got used! 

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: goldencup on February 08, 2006, 08:45:00 am

Quote from: Cherry_Ripe

I have a mini trampoline but I only have time to use it at weekend. I also have a bike, if that counts, again which I ride at weekends. We have a fitness suite at work so I go there every weekday.

Cherry do you find that rebounder thing any good?  I keep toying with the idea of buying one but feel it'll end up in the loft with the rest... 

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 08:50:10 am

Well gc I find it fun ... you can follow a rebounding video (there is a variety available but only one I like) or you can just put music TV or whatever on and dance or bounce around on it. I never fail to smile when I am on it!

It does take up more room than you originally think and of course it doesn't fold so you need a place to put it where it is out of the way but close enough to use when you want it. I wouldn't recommend rebounding upstairs - in my house it makes the downstairs light fittings shake!!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: smurfboy on February 08, 2006, 09:43:07 am

I have a very basic set of weights that I used to use before I finally gave in and joined the gym. Not that I have bothered going much lately...

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: homer on February 08, 2006, 09:49:32 am

Couldn’t live without the step machine or exercise bike. Where would I hang the clothes?

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: smurfboy on February 08, 2006, 09:51:55 am

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 09:53:10 am

Quote from: smurfboy

I have a very basic set of weights that I used to use before I finally gave in and joined the gym. Not that I have bothered going much lately...

Do you go swimming Smurfy?

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: smurfboy on February 08, 2006, 09:53:58 am

Of course!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 11:56:03 am

I do a lot of walking

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 12:45:47 pm

In the summer I walk some lunchtimes instead of going to the gym, it's nice to get some fresh air!

Did anyone else see the story on the news this morning about the Finnish study which showed the benefits of OAPs playing in playgrounds? Just goes to prove the 'use it or lose it' theory.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 12:50:33 pm

I do think if you keep active as you get older you 'keep it' so to speak.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 12:52:28 pm

Absolutely, not just physically but mentally also.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 12:59:04 pm

Thanks Cherry, I couldn't think of the word 

I have a neightbour who is 80 and she keeps mentally active and she is doing great

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: smurfboy on February 08, 2006, 01:01:25 pm

My grandparents are all in their eighties and are incredibly mentally active. I'm sure that's what the doctor said anyway... or was it 'disturbed'?

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 01:02:03 pm

my nan and grandad are doing fine mentally.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 01:11:02 pm

Do they go to the playground often?

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 01:14:40 pm

No but they go the the post office

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 01:14:54 pm

and the library quite often

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 01:22:31 pm

My Gran stays at home and does jigsaw puzzles all day.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: goldencup on February 08, 2006, 01:30:08 pm

My gran used to do all the daytime quizzes on TV.  When she died in her nineties she was still perfect mentally and her hearing and vision were brilliant too.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 01:32:37 pm

Quote from: goldencup

My gran used to do all the daytime quizzes on TV.

My Gran does that too. And 'Take a Break' magazine, she has all kinds of crap she won off that!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 01:33:32 pm

Aww I think its sweet

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: smurfboy on February 08, 2006, 01:38:31 pm

My grandad is excellent at quizzes and crosswords etc. He has a great memory for facts and history and trivia - the only problem is he forgets what he's told us ten minutes ago!

They are talking about that playground thing on the radio and now I am dying to go on a roundabout...

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 01:43:30 pm

The roundabout makes me feel sick. I like slides and seesaws.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 02:35:10 pm

Roundabouts make me feel sick as well.

I always had problems witht he see saw....I was an only child

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 02:36:56 pm

That's OK get your Granny to sit on the other end CC!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 02:43:03 pm

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 02:44:20 pm

Actually I was an only child until I was 10.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 02:55:20 pm

That was a long gap! 

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 02:57:27 pm

Indeed!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 03:02:24 pm

My aunt done that. She had David and Tony and then waited about 15 years and then had Louise and James!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 03:03:21 pm

I have cousins who are 15 years apart, they are both boys. They get on a lot better than me and my sister.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 03:06:22 pm

one of my cousins IS Vickly Pollard. She has the same Lonsdale pink zip up thing! At Christmas when she was over she said 'whenever I get any money I am straight down the argos aint I Susan'

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 03:11:11 pm

 My cousins both went to public school, they are more like Tim Nice But Dim!!!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 03:14:02 pm

theres none of that on my side of the family. Think I am the poshiest one.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 03:18:48 pm

They're not posh ... the younger of those two cousins works at the checkout in the local co-op . Public education doesn't necessarily get you any further in life I don't think.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 03:23:08 pm

I always wanted to work in the co-op when I was little! 

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: smurfboy on February 08, 2006, 03:52:33 pm

Oh, the lofty ambitions of childhood...

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 03:54:18 pm

I always wanted to work at the Post Office because I wanted to stamp lots of stuff!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: chocolate chick on February 08, 2006, 03:55:01 pm

I know! I used to think it was a great job! I didn't even want to work in Tesco it had to be the Co-op!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 08, 2006, 04:04:23 pm

My second choice would have been the butchers. Not because I particularly liked meat, I wanted to be skilled with a cleaver like that.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: oldspice on February 08, 2006, 04:41:43 pm

My husband told the careers officer he wanted to be a tramp or a pig farmer because both jobs allowed you to be smelly and dirty!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: loulou on February 09, 2006, 01:04:50 am

   

Quote from: Cherry_Ripe

The roundabout makes me feel sick. I like slides and seesaws.

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 09, 2006, 08:19:47 am

Lou that swing would make me sick too! Do you have a slide emoticon?

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2006, 01:07:39 am

  Can't seem to find a slide. 

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: oldspice on February 10, 2006, 06:58:45 am

That looks fun

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 10, 2006, 08:25:47 am

Quote from: loulou

  Can't seem to find a slide. 

Off to the park with granny for a spot of waterskiing then!

Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: loulou on February 10, 2006, 07:01:22 pm

    

Title: Exercise equipment
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Title: Exercise equipment
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Title: Exercise equipment
Post by: loulou on February 12, 2006, 06:11:20 pm

I'd love one but I don't have the room at the moment .

Title: Exercise equipment
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