[speaker001:] do you do for exercise do you do anything regularly
[speaker002:] I walk
[speaker001:] do you uh how often
[speaker002:] uh about every other day
[speaker001:] well that's good that's good
[speaker002:] no that's not very much really
[speaker001:] do you walk very far
[speaker002:] uh a couple miles
[speaker001:] yeah well that's that's not bad I mean I know um just probably in the last four or five months I've been able to pick up um I go to a gym and and uh ride the bike and do the what's called the stair master so that's uh I try to do that three or four times a week well
[speaker002:] have have you done that a long time
[speaker001:] um uh I I am uh uh I didn't I have a six month old baby he's my third one and didn't do it much while I was pregnant but um but the about at six weeks I really began picking it back up so I've been doing it at least for the last uh last five six months so but before that I did uh I did biking I like to swim a lot too so
[speaker002:] that sounds pretty good you're
[speaker001:] I
[speaker002:] you're better than I am I uh
[speaker001:] it's tough
[speaker002:] it is I I have purchased any number of well I say any number I've purchased three different uh types of exercise equipment uh mainly uh uh a rower and two different uh kinds of uh exercycles but uh I have teenagers and it drives me nuts when I get on and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh somebody's screwed the tension all the way up so you can hardly move
[speaker001:] yeah I bet well did you do you like the rowing rowing machine because I did that for a while and
[speaker002:] no I didn't like that
[speaker001:] I I didn't I just didn't feel like it was doing much for me and I don't I don't know if I wasn't doing it properly or what but I didn't I didn't feel like it was doing much except maybe
[speaker002:] I didn't like that I uh the uh like I say the
[speaker001:] maybe for my arms
[speaker002:] main problem with me is I've got to have something that's repeatable
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh walking is repeatable and bicycling is repeatable I I bicycle once in a while
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] but if it's any kind of equipment then uh I have uh four kids at home and and they just there's a joy I think in changing the settings
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and it takes me a while to get back into it so
[speaker001:] well so do you do you enjoy your walking or is it just because you have to exercise you know you need to exercise
[speaker002:] well there're two kinds one kind is where you just get out and you do it because you've got to do it and the other kind is
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] is uh actually most of the walking I've been doing these days is is just a bunch that I'm with uh uh a couple of people in my group who we just take off and walk uh uh over to the shopping center and walk through the shopping center and then come back which is about a two mile trip
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so it's but it's a kind of sedentary job here I don't know about you but uh uh this job just involves sitting in in front of a keyboard all day long writing computer programs
[speaker001:] ah yeah well I I run after preschoolers at this point so
[speaker002:] is is that right so you get uh so you get more exercise than
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] than uh that's a fair amount of exercise by itself right
[speaker001:] well uh yes and no I mean I don't I mean you know we play around and fool around but I don't I don't ever feel you know I've I've really worked out but I I really have you know first going to the gym was really really tough and I've been doing it like early in the mornings before the kids wake up so but now it's you know I don't like to wake up but once I'm up I enjoy it and I enjoy the the challenge of seeing how much further I can get and um right now I'm you know increasing levels on the bike or increasing time on the the stair master and um so that's you know and I only have a certain amount of time I can do it and so it's okay how many calories can I burn at this in this amount of time so
[speaker002:] are these are these uh does this gear have some kind of a little uh electronic uh thing uh read out on it
[speaker001:] yeah um I I'm a member of President's and so the the cycle tells you how far you've you have uh levels that you can um ride on or walk on and it tells you you know how far you've walked or how far you've um biked and how many calories it's burned and you can set it up where you can be going up hills or you can be going just constant level and so it's