Bike Trainer, Work Habits
Oct. 14th, 2015 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI seem to have solved a few problems today, so I'm feeling accomplished.
My bike trainer arrived just before I left for class. Once I got home, I set it up and found that it really is too loud to use in an upstairs apartment. Or rather, it's the vibration that travels through the floor and walls that's too much, even after I tried layering cardboard and textiles under it. I decided instead to set it up in the small laundry room in the basement. That option wouldn't have been available with a large piece of exercise equipment, but just moving my bike and the trainer down two flights of steps and back up is not onerous.
I pedaled for an hour while I did reading for GEO 602. It worked out really well, and I'm planning to make it a once or twice daily routine, depending on scheduling. It feels really good to have an easy way to get exercise *and* not sacrifice work time. I have to get a bit more dressed than I would in my own place, but I can live with that.
Speaking of, I'm floundering to some degree with the lack of structure here, so I'm imposing some. I set a timer on my phone to work for a span, then take a shorter break, and repeat. It's 66% and 33% at the moment, which seems awfully slackery for lack of a better term, but, to my embarrassment, it's better than I was doing before. It's worked out well so far today, so I'm hoping that continuing that way will help me be more productive.
My bike trainer arrived just before I left for class. Once I got home, I set it up and found that it really is too loud to use in an upstairs apartment. Or rather, it's the vibration that travels through the floor and walls that's too much, even after I tried layering cardboard and textiles under it. I decided instead to set it up in the small laundry room in the basement. That option wouldn't have been available with a large piece of exercise equipment, but just moving my bike and the trainer down two flights of steps and back up is not onerous.
I pedaled for an hour while I did reading for GEO 602. It worked out really well, and I'm planning to make it a once or twice daily routine, depending on scheduling. It feels really good to have an easy way to get exercise *and* not sacrifice work time. I have to get a bit more dressed than I would in my own place, but I can live with that.
Speaking of, I'm floundering to some degree with the lack of structure here, so I'm imposing some. I set a timer on my phone to work for a span, then take a shorter break, and repeat. It's 66% and 33% at the moment, which seems awfully slackery for lack of a better term, but, to my embarrassment, it's better than I was doing before. It's worked out well so far today, so I'm hoping that continuing that way will help me be more productive.
