Comparison/contrast
Many people like to go to the gym and exercise and most of us target a specific area of muscles when we go to maximize the effectiveness of our workout. I am writing specifically about cardio and using machines to exercise. Normally when you go to the gym and you want to use a machine to get a cardio workout there are three options. The first is the Treadmill, and the second is the Elliptical, and the third is the Stationary Bicycle. Ill describe how to get a cardio workout while avoiding the hard impact you would get from, let’s say, jogging. Something like the Elliptical that won’t leave you with shin splints or swollen knees afterwards because, let’s face it, some of us may have sports injuries of possibly getting older or just want to save their joints. So this eliminates the Treadmill. Let’s start with the Stationary bike. Some pros of using the Stationary Bicycle are you’re sitting down and, in case you have severe joint damage or bad back or arthritis, it may lower the stress on your bones and joints to use the bicycle for this reason. Second, you don’t have to move your arms as part of the workout, so you can isolate muscles and fatigue as fast. Third, because you are only using your lower body, you are working fewer muscles, therefore more likely to go longer distances.
Now there are some disadvantages to working …show more content…
It’s possible to get the rpms up but to move at the pace of the stationary bike is unreasonable. Another disadvantage to training on the elliptical is that it does require a learning curve. This machine is a little bit different motion then what some of us are used to so it does take a little practice before a person is totally comfortable using this machine but some people are more than willing to put up with the difficulty of learning the motions of the machine then it will be worth
Many people like to go to the gym and exercise and most of us target a specific area of muscles when we go to maximize the effectiveness of our workout. I am writing specifically about cardio and using machines to exercise. Normally when you go to the gym and you want to use a machine to get a cardio workout there are three options. The first is the Treadmill, and the second is the Elliptical, and the third is the Stationary Bicycle. Ill describe how to get a cardio workout while avoiding the hard impact you would get from, let’s say, jogging. Something like the Elliptical that won’t leave you with shin splints or swollen knees afterwards because, let’s face it, some of us may have sports injuries of possibly getting older or just want to save their joints. So this eliminates the Treadmill. Let’s start with the Stationary bike. Some pros of using the Stationary Bicycle are you’re sitting down and, in case you have severe joint damage or bad back or arthritis, it may lower the stress on your bones and joints to use the bicycle for this reason. Second, you don’t have to move your arms as part of the workout, so you can isolate muscles and fatigue as fast. Third, because you are only using your lower body, you are working fewer muscles, therefore more likely to go longer distances.
Now there are some disadvantages to working …show more content…
It’s possible to get the rpms up but to move at the pace of the stationary bike is unreasonable. Another disadvantage to training on the elliptical is that it does require a learning curve. This machine is a little bit different motion then what some of us are used to so it does take a little practice before a person is totally comfortable using this machine but some people are more than willing to put up with the difficulty of learning the motions of the machine then it will be worth