Kim - I am just putting on a CD really loud (or using headphones) and I am basically jogging on the rebounder for three tracks on the CD - then I do one or two CD tracks doing the other exercises that the Argos leaflet shows and then another two CD tracks of jogging again.

Any old CD is fine - but one with a sort of mixture of fast and slow is better. I am doing this as well as my usual walking - but you could do it twice over or a couple of times a day. Whatever you do keep the equipment easy to get to and the routine fairly simple.

Was the exercise equipment a pressie to make up for MIL??

Sorry.... no idea about the ab frame!

yes that was my little sweetner for his faux pas last night sarah i just jogged on it i only managed 10 minutes which is bad i know but i have to remember im very anti exercise i have fought off doing any but ive realised its the only way forward, well this morning im in agony but dont think it was the rebounder i think it was the ab frame i did about 35 sit up things with itand now i know i have muscle lurking about under all the fat i ll try the cd suggestion this evening see if it helps

Kim was there not a video with your ab roller – I got a 20 minute one showing you what to do. But in true organised style threw it out ages ago. Think it is ’harder’ if you put your arms on the arm rests instead of pulling the frame up by holding on to the top.

Well my Geri tape finally turned up yesterday haven’t even put it on yet, but I will tonight. Am struggling to fit in anything bar my walking but that is better than nothing. Walked 4 miles yesterday so I shouldn’t complain. Today I am going to do that yoga vid though or at least the bits I can manage

no video but what you just said about the arms being on the rests rings a bell i thought that would make it easier , i will try it the other way tonight where do you walk for 4 miles? id ove to go out walking but have nowhere to walk to that isnt around big buildings and factories and such like ..........there is glasgow green as a last resort but i bet id be the statistic that ended up being mugged

Kim my 4 miles was from my house to the station (2 miles) then from the station to the office (3/4 miles) and back again (3/4) then from the bus stop to my child minders and home again (1/2) Was fair worn out after it, would never have walked that far if my car had been on the road.

Glasgow is a bit difficult to walk in. Our office is in the red light district - just as well they don't really work it during the day . If I'm in Glasgow at lunchtime I end walking along the Broomielaw and hanging on to my bag for sheer death. When I'm in my own office I walk around the business park, which is all big buildings & factories. Although there is a landscaping company working on making it all beautiful. As the contract was for £1,000,000 they ought to gold plate the place. Could always run through Glasgow Green - very fast

No exercise for me today. Being very lazy. Will need to make up for it at the weekend.

Bloomin' 'eck, Carol!!! And all I was worried about was a few adders and bottomless peat bogs cunningly disguised as paths ....... !

thats what i meant about glasgow not being best place to go out walking sarah, full off undesirables back to the drawing board on that one i think

Ah well.... if you can't get out and about to walk, then you will need that rebounder much more than I do.

I used to live in London and it wasn't as scary as that - I never felt that threatened even in Peckham, South London (Only Fools and Horses area) where all the criminals are supposed to hang out (which is where I was brought up). I got burgled a couple of times, but it wasn't personal and one time someone did try to mug me, but it turned out that I had gone to school with him so he stopped and it never happened again.

I hadn't lived in London 48 hours when I was mugged. Horror story I know but I am much more street wise now we have to be. That is why we only go out at weekends when DH is with us cycling etc, its a shame really because there are some really nice areas to walk around it is just not the thing to do on your own. i need a dog!!

Feel I have to stand up and say that not all of Glasgow is bad. Like most cities it has it's good & bad areas.

Over in Edinburgh the city centre is very nice & clean, organised with bus lanes, parks, gardens, benches, flowers and lots of nice things. Glasgow just needs some money spent on it and pulled into the 21st century

A majority of the people are lovely but it's the 'few' you have to worry about. The end of town I work is the 'wrong end'. Up by Sauchiehall Street there is a glorious new shopping centre & the area is very prosperous & growing in stature. Eventually they will get around to working on the less desirable areas but until then we just have to live with it.

It is well worth a visit if you're in the area. There aren't as many 'famous' places to visit like Edinburgh but the city has such a wide variety of cultures and interesting places & stories, you just have to search a bit deeper to find some of them. So if you're ever up here, please do come to Glasgow & look past the lovely new concert hall and shopping centre and see the real Glasgow.

Our new office isn't even a year old. A big new high tech very modern office. It was obviously built where it is as land prices are cheap. They are trying to improve the area, BT have an emourous office next to ours, but it is going to take while.

I have never been mugged / robbed or anything like that here - just felt uncomfortable a few times. Glasgow tourist board if you can just send the commission cheque to ....................

Still no exercise - why not ???? What am I doing with myself all day if I'm not working out ???? Will figure it out tomorrow. Sunday is going to be - kick butt day.

When I came to the UK nearly two years back, gawd is it really that long ago? I had heard about the muggings etc in the cities.
Unfortunately it did happen to me in London. Had my camera stolen from the back pack in the Underground. What upset me more was the fact that the film in the camera was finished and I was too lazy on the trip back from Norfolk to London to change the film. Gnashing of teeth sound here. Had photos of places where the ancestors used to live.
In Edinburgh and Glasgow I never felt threatened. Mind you I don't think I went to some of those places mentioned. Strangely enough the place where I work just now has a fairly large number of Glaswegians (is that what you call them) there. Nice people, mostly.
Anyway, just wanted to say to both Carol and Veggie and Phoebe - stick with it. All the people who read these threads care about you and want to help.
Best go do some more packing. Have a good weekend - what's left of it.
Oh and have a great Easter. I'm going away to live it up on a Tropical beach.

Joy/Shad - What an unfair parting sentence THAT was ..... tropical beach.... oh - I wish!

About this urban violence thing.... I think the time that I have I felt most threatened has definitely been when we lived in a smallish town called Goole in East Yorkshire which has got an enormous drugs problem. Of course, alongside the enormous drugs problem it also had an enormous crime rate - far more so per head of the population than the 'rough' area of south London where I used to live. We owned a fish & chip shop there and we finally shut it because we just couldn't take any more of the the drugs related crime which was directly affecting us - within one year we were broken in to a couple of times, stuff pinched from our van while Kevin was unloading it (3 times), we had an attempted hold-up with a knife, someone took potshots at our shop window with an air pistol, and the final straw was a sort of extortion racket for 'protection'!! (a chippy?????). There was never a day went past that we didn't hear of someone being burgled or mugged - most popular with the 11-15 age range was a sort of 'blackmail' - if you didn't pay up then they would throw bricks and stones through your windows. No one felt secure - as soon as it got dark everyone was much too scared to walk along the road just to go to the chippy - so we would do a lot of business in daylight/summer but as soon as it got dark - nothing!

So much for small towns - I would prefer to live in a city than a small town - at least in cities it isn't a 'personal' thing, whereas in Goole the people that were doing these crimes were our neighbours - or worse - our customers!! We have now moved to the outskirts of a small village which is very quiet.

I have been to Glasgow and loved it!! can't remember the year but there was a big 'smiley face ' campaign going on to attract tourists. I loved the nightlife shops etc.
I think it is the same throughout the country at the moment, mainly down to drugs, I read an article in the Daily Mail yesterday about crime stats etc all involving children from about 11 years of age, very sad.
The light nights are just around the corner, maybe we will all be able to get out and about a bit more and step up our exercise.

glasgow is a great place and the people are probably the friendliest ever , as in all big cities it is the minority , and as i live in sort of the east end area its a big problem here.........these people hang around all the parks and things during the day , drinking swering and worsde not nice place to go walking with kids, night time i wouldnt even consider in the town i feel perfectly safe it is just the parks and such like

Sorry if I was unfair on you all. Lets look at the downside of a Tropical beach.
Coconuts can drop on your head
Children think you are a beached whale lying on there and call the Coast guard
and there are Crocodiles in some areas
Then of course there are the serious things like - Irangandji. These are the really nasty jelly fish things that sting like crazy. We have had some really nasty stingers this year and one man even died of complications from the stings.
Still I will think of something else to do I'm sure. I have a friend coming down from Japan and we will do the touristy bit and swim, walk, sail etc and maybe with a little luck I will get to snorkel on the reef. Isn't it good I'm on the exercise thread.
Have a nice Easter - don't overdo it, but don't deny yourself everything. I'm lucky I don't like chocolate, but I'm big on fresh baked Hot cross buns. Still I have those scales to come back to.
Bye all