Dakarti, what are your thoughts on the unicycle (plus balancing wheels) that Kim's brother made?

I've seen a couple of such concepts over the years. It looks like great fun too. The fixed upright position would sure make the whole operation so much easier.

The Skatecycle looks fun in and of itself and I'd love a go but for myself I prefer the challenge and core workout of the rather more unstable one wheel.

I am so jealous. oh wait, i live near the beach! tis not the Atlantic however. :|

i thought it was cross country skiing :byebye:

:)

Yes, I guess I was thinking of it as a way to move towards using a unicycle.

Kim PMmed me and said she will get her brother's info.

I don't think it's a case of moving towards using a unicycle. When you take the seat stabiliser away and the front stabilisers it's a vastly different story. Of course the ones in the videos aren't unicycles.

The way I started to learn on the uni, was in my hallway at home, holding onto walls, door jambs etc., just to get the feel of being unbalanced in every direction and learn how to sit in the seat. Seriously, learning to just let yourself relax into the banana seat is a skill in itself. I still can't mount the uni without holding onto something...I'm a wuss and can't quite let myself do a free-mount with the inherent risk of face-planting hard, or ripping the skin of yer shins if you have metal pegged pedals. :| ...although I do a free-mount when doing rola bola and that's really scary too.

Now we've moved into the shop and have space outside, I shall be practicing again the small 20in wheel (when time allows) with a view to moving onto the 24in wheel again. One day (when I've bought full shin pads and a bubble wrap suit ;)) I'm gonna learn that free-mount.

My 20 and 24http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...4C4789D321.jpg


eta. ooops! sorry for the big pic.

I've found it helpful to search online for workouts. Youtube has a variety of full length workouts....including tae bo :| I remember that one.... :)

There's a site The Daily Burn that does different workouts also...

http://dailyburn.com/?s1

I gotta say, this take a vid of what I'm doing might be one of the better ideas I've had for myself. This morning I turned on the phone and let it run while I did my morning stretches and caught several form issues. Stuff I wouldn't notice if turning my head to look in a mirror (don't have one anyway).

Kind of like having a detached observer across the room. I can then go to my chart that shows how X is supposed to look and see small stuff like a tipped pelvis or rounding of my shoulders part way through something.

I'm not self conscience because a) nobody is around, and b) I know I am the only one to see it and I can delete if I want to. I might transfer to the 'puter for future comparisons after practicing changes.

Today is a light day because I have appointments. So, morning stretches and I will work in a couple of rounds of my 'stations'. No beach walk or swim today.

Oh, I also blew through another pair of shoes yesterday. Thank god for Zappos, free replacements due to arrive today.


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I think you should post the videos.

:popcorn:

Mad at myself. Had a really stressful day at work. Almost started to look for a new job, probably won't but did contact the union. Anyway mad at self because I should have gone right to pool tonight to work it off. But came home to write some emails and watch Scandal. I guess watching Kerri Washington is as good as a swim. Lol

Mad at myself. Had a really stressful day at work. Almost started to look for a new job, probably won't but did contact the union. Anyway mad at self because I should have gone right to pool tonight to work it off. But came home to write some emails and watch Scandal. I guess watching Kerri Washington is as good as a swim. Lol:seeingstars:

Yeah, you go 'head and wait. Frosty day in hell.

:blink:

Overheard in my kitchen
 

A great workout I had today.
 

Want to share with all.

Mulched and raked the leaves until the green grass thanked me. So pleased at my work the wind was, she decided to give it a good blow so I need to repeat tomorrow.

It's uphill both ways, it's good for me....blech

So, I switched up today (exercise wise, lol). Not sure I am getting this ok cupid thing but my date had too many errand to run so bombed out on me. That gave me more time to either stay in the gym and work out, or, go home and clean. I think I choose the right option. I exercised. I wanted to see if going back to the machines and weights would improve my swimming.

I did 45 minutes on the recumbent elliptical, worked out on the ab machines. rowing, hi abduction (?). I did free weights and sweated. I then went to swim a mile and noticed how much easier for me to go faster and with less stress on my body. I think I will do the machines at least once a week.

So, can't say I have had consistent daily exercise since I posted here. I walked once.

Today I am starting a 24 day challenge to tighter abs. I figure at least it's something and will start my brain thinking in the burn-the-fat-off way.

So today I did 6 crunches, 6 leg raises and a 10 second plank.

Think I'll take a pic so I can see if I notice any changes by day 24.

Too cold to run. So half hour on the bike andhalf hour on the eliptical.

It's my holiday break so I'm trying to get in some good gym time.

Today I did two hours on the Beast, 1 hr Hill Interval-Level 10, and the second hour Strength-Level 10. I watched Toddlers and Tiaras (Please don't send me hate mail :typewriter:). It's a poorly put together show. I am watching it in a series but am skipping chunks because it's just not good. I thought it might be fascinating but to my surprise Dance Moms was much better, and Dance Moms was not very good.

Then I did an hour of weights, stretching, and floor exercises in blessed silence.

I calculated my exercise for the year of 2013, and it comes out to 5 hours per week.