Thoughts About Elliptical
Have you ever run on a treadmill facing a window and asked yourself, “Why am I not doing this in real life? Why am I choosing to stay indoors and run in place when I can be running outdoors and see what’s around the neighborhood?”
Is it because you live in the flattest city where there are no hills and your machine’s incline level goes to 10, which you’ll probably never get to? Or are you afraid of the street bandits/thunderstorm?
Doesn’t matter, I won’t judge you. As long as you’re exercising, it doesn’t matter if you’re doing outdoors or in a gym. In fact, in a gym, you have access to things you might not have at home. You can get on the exercise bike if you don’t have a bicycle. Or the rower if you don’t have a kayak. Or the stepper for stairs. Or the treadmill for concrete or legs or something.
All of those things can be done either with or without the machine. But what is the elliptical? What do you do on the elliptical that you also do in real life? Jump from cloud to cloud?
I’ve been watching people’s movements on the elliptical trying to see what real-life actions it mimics. But it’s neither running nor walking. It’s some kind of ridiculous slow-motion skipping that makes you look ridiculous if you take away the machine, and it makes me look like a creep for trying to understand what exactly it is you’re doing by staring from across the gym.
