Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

The sweat drips off your forehead.

You uncomfortably shift in your bike seat.

You try to avoid glancing at the treadmill dashboard to see how much time has gone by.

And then finally, you can't help yourself and you glance at your watch.

14 minutes.

You've been on that darn indoor cardio trainer for just 14 minutes,

and already you have an intense desire to move on to something far less boring,

like knitting, watching the paint dry, or perhaps reading Moby Dick

for the ninth time. It's sad, but true. Indoor cardio workouts can be painfully boring. So in this

episode, you'll learn how to beat the boredom when you're exercising indoors on a treadmill,

elliptical trainer, or bicycle, and get five fun indoor cardio workouts that make your workout fly by much faster.

Indoor cardio workout number one is something I call elliptical soup.

I like this workout because it's a full body workout in disguise.

It gives you a great cardiovascular boost while still integrating some strength training.

Start by doing an easy two-minute warm-up on the elliptical trainer, and then do the following.

By the way, I'll put all of this in the show notes over at quick and dirty tips.com,

because this and the other workouts I talked about today are going to be good ones for you to print and bring to the gym with you.

So after that two-minute

warm-up, do a fast pedal at a medium intensity for two minutes. Then switch direction and pedal

backwards at a medium intensity for two minutes. Then get off the elliptical and jump rope or do

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