My treadmill is on display =(

Hello LetranKnight25 I suggest that you get rid of the treadmill. And I don't mean hire it out for someone else to remove. You remove it yourself. This will give you more exercise than you're presently getting with it, and then it will also no longer be an eyesore and a constant source of guilt. After removing the treadmill, you will feel invigorated from all of this physical activity. So do something that you like to do. Walking on the treadmill is very the boring. Do something else that you like. Just do it a little bit every other day or so, then continue. Peace.

Hi LetranKnight, i have the same problem as you do. for the past like 2 or 3 years, i have been telling myself to go and do some exercise. but due to many many reasons that i give myself, i have not been exercising. similarly, it's not that i do not have the time to exericse, just that i'm really lazy so i keep giving myself lots of excuses and keep saying that i don't have time. yep, doing warm up before exercising would lower the chance of us hurting ourselves. most importantly, i think you need a real and strong determination and make it as one of your goal to exercise. with determination, i think you will be able to do it.

well you can manage time by multi-tasking, like watching or listening to newscast and running of the treadmill.

dear LK, Duh! Oh well, I am gaining weight everyday and I don't know either how to lose weight How many times did I promise myself to start jogging, but goodness all my promises are broken I know we really need self motivation and that I do not know how :xxx

Hello there, what makes you too busy so much? Are you working on a night shift thats why you woke up late in the morning? Be systematic in your work , whether in the office or at home; and set a time for your exercise. I guess a 15 to 30 mins of exercise is enough. Or you may set it on weekends.

do it slowly but surely, first start with 10 minutes a day then after one week, make it 15 minutes..... and so and so on. a slow transition so your body wont get shocked. Also play your favorite songs while using the threadmill, Look an average song is around 2 to 3 minutes. Just play 4 of your favorite songs, then keep on running on your threadmill until the play list is over, add few songs in the playlist as days or weeks progress. also keep this in to your mind, you are doing this because you want to live longer.

If you're just going to walk in it not regularly, you don't really need warm up nor cool down. It's just like you walking around, do you stretch before you walk around the house? Just start with slower speeds for the first week or so, then gradually increase. Just walk at least 20-30 minutes slow pace first then increase it as you feel that there's no more challenge. Most of these machines have warm up and cool down features, use them so that you won't need to 'monitor', instead just hop and walk! hehe.. You don't even need to go the full 30 minutes the first few days. Just walk whenever you don't have anything to do, or while you're still thinking of MyLot topics to post. It's a good way to think. But of course, the most important tip here is: Stop Making Excuses Not To Use It! hehe.. Have a great MyLot experience ahead!

It is very hard to be able to get the motivation and the time to do some exercise, but if you're too busy to do any of it then you're probably active enough anyway! The thing that you're saying about the warm up is true, however you could use your treadmill to warm up and just start off walking and then build up the speed as and when you think you're ready to do so. This means that you would be able to save a little time and get some exercise done. Even if you only have a spare ten minutes then you should really do it, because a little exercise is better than no exercise at all.

I wish I had a treadmill. I could use the extra exercise. I had one when I lived in Florida. Kept it on my lanai so I could use it facing the lake. That was nice though when it got real hot I didn't use it at all.

A matter of self-discipline! Find a motivation to start over again, maybe it's just somewhere out there. Or maybe just give it away!

hi LK, I once had treadmill but I just used it rarely till I junk it Oh well good thing Yuro and Everette are around I can still have walk with them every afternoon at the park maybe you need to focus which I don't have you can take mine if you want LOL miss yah happy mylotting

this is my fear also when buying a threadmill, I'm afraid that it will not be usefull and will only eat much of the space in the house, but now that it is raining I am considering again to buy it, but the problem also is I am in a thrift mode and slashing off a budget for threadmill is not necessary for me this time, but still I really really wanted one, how I wish that the gym here is fully functional but its not. How I wish that you can use it and have a motivation to burn more calories everyday

I had the same problem for not being motivated to do any exercise for a long time and every day I would wake up and say to myself 'today is the day I get back to gym' and then I would again come up with hundreds of excuses why I couldn't get to the gym that day. Every day that passed by I could feel and see myself getting flabbier and flabbier. I was actually getting so fed up with myself for being so undisciplined that three days ago I said enough is enough! Without thinking about whether I should go to the gym or not, I just got up, dressed and went. If one thinks too much about should you exercise, believe me you will always come up with excuses. Just do it!:)

In my opinion, you should encorperate excersise in your daily routine. Jogging to your destination, carrying weights around the house, watching tv while running on the treadmill. Its hard to say, you should post your schedule. I may be able to help more. Main part of losing weight is to watch your diet. 3520 calories = 1 pound of fat. If you are not very active, i suggest a 1200 calorie/day diet. If you are doing things like typing, walking around the house a lot, yard work, for at least 3 hours, then 1700 calories. You burn about 1400 calories a day doing nothing.