Real Weight loss?

[Hawkeye6]

First time I got on it I thought I was going to have a stroke before the odometer hit a mile. I have planned a building schedual of more miles on it (IE first week goal 3 miles a night is just about to kill me so far) so here is to hoping.

GOB:

It sounds to me like you need to adjust your initial goals downward a little. Can you pedal the thing continuously for, say, 20 minutes?

If you can, great! That is not a bad place to start. Maybe do that three times a week for the first two weeks. Then add 5 minutes per session for the next couple of weeks, Then up it again so that you are now doing 30 minutes three times a week.

It will take a while to recondition yourself, but doing it slowly will reduce your chance of injury and not leave you so exhausted that you don't want to do it each time.

You might try alternating things, too. Three days you bike and three you walk for 20 minutes or so.

H.