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Make bicycle work = pedal
Posted May 30th, 2008 by Mom |
This past Tuesday evening, B and I met after B’s workday at a local gym/spa for a tour. We discussed joining the gym facility over the prior weekend and anticipated joining after the tour, which we did join.
The kids are loving swimming daily. I really have missed swimming. Growing up through high school and college, we had a neighborhood pool and I could be found there most days after school. Wednesday was the first day I took the kids swimming. C remembered the pool from our beach vacation last year and jumped right into the water, no fear. It took J a little while to acclimate to the water, but after about a half hour was swimming on his own - of course with his floaty swimsuit. Both boys are learning the names of kids that they are seeing, since we are going to the pool about the same time every day.
The boys begin swimming lessons on Monday. I can’t wait!! They are also excited. I’ll blog about the lessons next week…
On Wednesday evening (I think), B went to the gym to exercise while the boys and I stayed home - it was near the kids’ bedtime, so B had time to relax on his own. He came home and told me about his experience. He wanted to try the mechanical bicycles - which happened to be on the first row of the exercise machines. He got on one and pressed the buttons to start it. Nothing happened. No one else was on any of the bicycles, so B tried another bike. Same thing. Nothing. After trying a third bike, and it not working, B was feeling quite conspicuous, thinking that all the other people exercising were watching him and wondering what he was possibly doing. After feeling conspicuous and none of the bikes working by B pressing the buttons, he went to ask if they were unplugged, or what he was doing wrong or what he needed to do to get the bicycles to work. The gym representative said, “Pedal the bike to make it work.” Duh… I got a good laugh out of the story. B felt pretty bad. However, understandably if you expect to program the settings on the stationary bike before starting, it makes since to have the buttons working.
I have to say that I am glad this experience happened to B and not to me. Now I know to try the machines to get them to work if the buttons don’t automatically start it. Thanks B for your willingness to try something new… (lets work on new foods, now?)