Trying to get myself back into fitness after slipping off the rails a bit over the past year. Some of you may know that I bought one of those lightweight mini multi gyms from IW that slides under the bed, I won't deny that it's a brilliant bit of kit as you can use it as a stepper, for sit ups, press ups etc and up to fairly recently I was doing a 30 minute work out every day. Unfortunately though one of the resistance bands snapped and even though IW sent me a some replacements, I sort of fell out of love with it after that and couldn't be bothered to do my work out any more....too much effort!
I decided that I wanted to have a gravity walker or an exercise bike, so I could exercise whilst watching telly. When we first moved in here I did have a gravity walker, but it was so enormous, that my husband said he was totally sick of seeing it in the hallway even though it was folded and that he'd rather have a shoe rack, or something useful in it's place - so that went! Few years later I bought and exercise bike, it wasn't foldable but I kept it in our bedroom in hope that he would use it too, it was against a wall so not it the way, he never ever used it, and to be fair I hardly ever did 'cause I couldn't manoeuvre it probably to use it whilst watching tv. He moaned about it every single day and in the end I had to get rid of that too. I was hoping that in future I'd find one like I used to have in the 80s that folded up as flat as an ironing board, but they don't make them like that any more, even the folding ones have bulky saddles and massively oversized handlebars and non foldable pedals.
The other day I decided to look up compact exercise equipment, and found a gravity walker which is desk sized basically it's just the foot part and you use it from a regular chair, it was very cheap and I ordered it via amazon, I was also during my search reminded of the good old "bike box" from IW which had gone down to £99 free postage and easy pay, so I ordered that as well.
Knowing the bike box would come in an enormous package and that it's likely to be delivered when he was in, I told him a white lie about my son ordering a present for his wife to be sent here as he didn't want her to see it. Sunday night he came in from work and I heard him shouting "You can't leave this ****** big box here" I'll bring it upstairs....Oh crap I thought when he feels the weight of it, he'll go bananas, anyway he carried it upstairs and dumped it in middle of the front room, obviously I can't be the bike box as it's too light ..but the box was hummungus in size and said Amazon on it..Oh that must be what my son ordered....mmm it's a bit big isn't it hubby said he'll have to come and collect it...sorry! Realising it must be the gravity walker, I panicked...it's massive, I'll have to sent it back. Next day opened it to find tons of packing inside plus another small box about a quarter of the size. Set it up got rid of the packaging...brilliant product very pleased folds up small takes up no room etc etc...but Sh*t...there goes the story about it not being for me, what the feck am I going to do when the really big one turns up?!!!!!!
I have been extremely lucky... Yesterday I was on a short shift, and hubby on a long shift at work...I returned home about 2.15 yesterday afternoon to find a card pushed through the door to say a delivery for me had been taken in by my next door neighbour. I rang on her bell and she said, you'd better come in, it's massive and I can't lift it on my own! God! she wasn't wrong, between us we staggered it round into the downstairs hallway which is shared with the downstairs flat, I thanked her and apologised profusely. I stood there in panic....There no way I can get this ****** thing upstairs, can't leave it here, especially since I also have keep my pushbike in the here. Hubby will go MENTAL!!!! After much head scratching I opened the outer box, then the inner packagaing, removed the polystyrene etc, managed to haul the bikebox upstairs, before I tried it out I offered it up to the two places I'd earmarked for it's storage...d'oh it didn't fit into either (and I'd taken measurements!). Finally I managed to find a perfect spot behind one of the settees in the living room and it's undetectable. Have had a go, and it's brilliant. I got rid of the packaging....phew!!!!!!
It's both of our days off today, and I woke up in a cold sweat imagining what would have happened if it had been delivered today....he would have gone BALLISTIC!!!!! There's no way he would have calmly looked at the situation and helped me find somewhere to store it...it would have been something like this....."When will you EVER learn, this flat is not big enough for exercise equipment"..you'll never ****** use it......how much did it cost? - that's ridiculous....You'll have to arrange to get it sent back immediately - I can't believe you have done this after all the exercise equipment you've had...blah blah!
To be fair, I don't even know what I was thinking either, it's more luck than judgement that I've managed to smuggle it in undetected. But hey, it's easy to get in and out from behind sofa as it has a little wheel fitted at the front and what's more I can sit and watch telly...but only when hubby's out lol!!!!
I decided that I wanted to have a gravity walker or an exercise bike, so I could exercise whilst watching telly. When we first moved in here I did have a gravity walker, but it was so enormous, that my husband said he was totally sick of seeing it in the hallway even though it was folded and that he'd rather have a shoe rack, or something useful in it's place - so that went! Few years later I bought and exercise bike, it wasn't foldable but I kept it in our bedroom in hope that he would use it too, it was against a wall so not it the way, he never ever used it, and to be fair I hardly ever did 'cause I couldn't manoeuvre it probably to use it whilst watching tv. He moaned about it every single day and in the end I had to get rid of that too. I was hoping that in future I'd find one like I used to have in the 80s that folded up as flat as an ironing board, but they don't make them like that any more, even the folding ones have bulky saddles and massively oversized handlebars and non foldable pedals.
The other day I decided to look up compact exercise equipment, and found a gravity walker which is desk sized basically it's just the foot part and you use it from a regular chair, it was very cheap and I ordered it via amazon, I was also during my search reminded of the good old "bike box" from IW which had gone down to £99 free postage and easy pay, so I ordered that as well.
Knowing the bike box would come in an enormous package and that it's likely to be delivered when he was in, I told him a white lie about my son ordering a present for his wife to be sent here as he didn't want her to see it. Sunday night he came in from work and I heard him shouting "You can't leave this ****** big box here" I'll bring it upstairs....Oh crap I thought when he feels the weight of it, he'll go bananas, anyway he carried it upstairs and dumped it in middle of the front room, obviously I can't be the bike box as it's too light ..but the box was hummungus in size and said Amazon on it..Oh that must be what my son ordered....mmm it's a bit big isn't it hubby said he'll have to come and collect it...sorry! Realising it must be the gravity walker, I panicked...it's massive, I'll have to sent it back. Next day opened it to find tons of packing inside plus another small box about a quarter of the size. Set it up got rid of the packaging...brilliant product very pleased folds up small takes up no room etc etc...but Sh*t...there goes the story about it not being for me, what the feck am I going to do when the really big one turns up?!!!!!!
I have been extremely lucky... Yesterday I was on a short shift, and hubby on a long shift at work...I returned home about 2.15 yesterday afternoon to find a card pushed through the door to say a delivery for me had been taken in by my next door neighbour. I rang on her bell and she said, you'd better come in, it's massive and I can't lift it on my own! God! she wasn't wrong, between us we staggered it round into the downstairs hallway which is shared with the downstairs flat, I thanked her and apologised profusely. I stood there in panic....There no way I can get this ****** thing upstairs, can't leave it here, especially since I also have keep my pushbike in the here. Hubby will go MENTAL!!!! After much head scratching I opened the outer box, then the inner packagaing, removed the polystyrene etc, managed to haul the bikebox upstairs, before I tried it out I offered it up to the two places I'd earmarked for it's storage...d'oh it didn't fit into either (and I'd taken measurements!). Finally I managed to find a perfect spot behind one of the settees in the living room and it's undetectable. Have had a go, and it's brilliant. I got rid of the packaging....phew!!!!!!
It's both of our days off today, and I woke up in a cold sweat imagining what would have happened if it had been delivered today....he would have gone BALLISTIC!!!!! There's no way he would have calmly looked at the situation and helped me find somewhere to store it...it would have been something like this....."When will you EVER learn, this flat is not big enough for exercise equipment"..you'll never ****** use it......how much did it cost? - that's ridiculous....You'll have to arrange to get it sent back immediately - I can't believe you have done this after all the exercise equipment you've had...blah blah!
To be fair, I don't even know what I was thinking either, it's more luck than judgement that I've managed to smuggle it in undetected. But hey, it's easy to get in and out from behind sofa as it has a little wheel fitted at the front and what's more I can sit and watch telly...but only when hubby's out lol!!!!
