Are these things any good?
I have a desk job where I spend 4+ hours doing data analytics. I've been looking for ways get more cardio in, if I could exercise while working maybe I could burn an extra 100 to 200 calories a day.
Would you recommend the bike, elliptical or treadmill version?
I've only ever seen fat slob cunts used em. They remained fat cunts afterwards.
Well they probably treated it as their exercise for the day and an excuse to eat goyslop for lunch and dinner.
Assuming you used one at work and went to the gym as normal, would you see it being beneficial? Assuming you did sets of 20 to 30 minutes every other hour I see myself burning at least 200 calories a day 5 days a week.
If it doesn't make me lose weight, it should at least make me lose bodyfat no?
lol no, they don't calculate the kilojoul you produce but use a kcal counter that goes up with the time the pedal is moved even minimal input. Also they have like 1 watt resistent.
Buy a real stationary bike.
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I said this is for under my desk while. I can't buy a stationary bike to put in my office and I'm also not a trained cyclist
Even if you pedal for 4 hours on this joke of a bike you won't burn much more than 50kcal, literally no resistance.
I'm sure they make versions of this with resistance. The one I posted is a basic model because it's the first thing I found on Google
Okay, throw your money away if you want to, I warned you enough.
My mom has one of these and it's literally junk, literally made for new years resolutionists that buy a product and think the already made 50% of the process but never use it.
Work will buy me an office related product as long as it's in the departments budget, which 300 is chump change to a fortune 500 company
What about this model with 8 resistance settings. Even the normies on the reviews say 8 is fairly difficult
I can't speak about this produce but if it doesn't has a chain and calls itself a "bike" it's trash.
Don't bother, I had one that was way cheaper looking so maybe thats the issue but...
It wouldnt stay in place while cycling on it (same issue as light rower machines but those at least have places for you to weight them down with plates). The resistance was also minimal. A month in the resistance knob broke off after I used it like 3 times.
Maybe this has more potential but I'm skeptical because before I tried the cycling one I thought it could work too.
I don't see how it can be comfortable to move your legs on that while sitting in office chair.
Standing desk will probably 'burn' more calories anyway.
>not a trained cyclist
What, you have to get a cycling loicense?
>not a trained cyclist
Not gonna make it, more like
To add, to burn 200kcal at 50Watts per second you have to push the pedal for 4,7 hours. These products are for geriatrics like
said.
>Are these things any good?
These are probably only good for geriatrics who can move their legs but aren't strong enough to actually walk. I got something like this for my 90 something grandmother after she broke her hip twice. It's good for making sure blood moves into her legs
Just get a walking desk instead
If you want to stay minimalist, at least get an ab roller. With that shit you might even progress if you are willing to. Might even get you into calisthenics or lifting if you are super eager
Literally no point, if it's so light as to be mindless it's not enough activity to even burn calories let alone actually provide any cardio benefit at all. Effortless means no growth. If it's actually engaging it's doubtful you'll be able to concentrate on work and do this. If you have meetings you can just be on speakerphone for or schedule a lunch you can just walk/run/treadmill/bike etc for 20mins at moderate intensity and it be more impact than hours of nonstop use. Do some isometric work a couple minutes on the hour. Get some resistance bands to do some active stretching. There's really no reason to over complicate it.
The main benefit is that you don't sit still, so just get up and pace a bit, or have smaller water bottle so you have an excuse to get up and go fill it more often.