Horizon documentary on exercise a while ago...has anyone tried the high intensity thing?

[ggirltwin2pinot]

just watched it on iplayer and fell in love a little bit with presenter Michael Mosley

anyway was thinking of geting an exercise bike to do the intense 3mins a wek thing
think i could cope with that and it's meant to hepl prevent diabetes which I am prone to

so have you started and how's it going?

I watched that the other day too. Thought it was fascinating.

I haven't done the intense exercise business but have tried to increase my movement every day, a la the chap who conducted all the interviews standing up.

Watching with interest!

yes I got up and washed the floor after watching it

Ggirl, no I didn't watch it but Michael Mosely is one of my secret nerd crushes so off to iplayer I go.

ooh enjoy..he's gorgeous

DH did high intensity on an exercise bike, injured his knee, and has been out of action for several weeks. So ... beware injury.

I did see it. As I have a bike I thought I'd give it a go rather than using it as a holder for my handbags. Have to say I'm quite impressed with the results!

kaumana ooh really, results as in ???

thefarside- that'll be me probably

I watched it with fil, now whenever either of us sits down, the other jokes about the "killer chair" :) It was an interesting programme though.

ggirltwin2pinot- well, instead of looking at handbag holding bike and feeling "ugh, should really get on it while watching Desperate Housewives". I have done the full on cycling as shown in the programme. It has seemed to have jumped started my metabolic rate!

Oh and have been charity collecting for the past couple of weeks at the weekend for acouple of hours at a time, standing still.

ooh you've spurred me on now
am watching a couple of exercise bikes on ebay

Have a look on Gumtree too, that's where I got my £750 bike for £30, I guess she needed to upgrade her handbag space!

blimey ..bargain!
off to have a look