The Excy Blog
Dedicated to inspiring more movement for healthier living!
Recumbent Exercise Bike from Your Chair with Excy
Excy Turns Any Chair Into a Stationary Recumbent Exercise Bike Anywhere In today’s live stream, we opted for a low-key morning routine of using Excy as a recumbent exercise bike. Sure, you can crank Excy up for higher intensity exercise and to strength train, but...
This Kitchen Table HIIT Circuit Burns Calories and Tones
We LOVE HIIT Lack and time and space are two common reasons for not exercising, but Excy has completely eliminated both as obstacles. In today’s workout, we mix things up a little with a quick circuit using Excy as an upper body ergometer at the kitchen table. With...
Upper Body Workouts Are Not Just A Vanity Play
Get the Arm Candy for Your Heart The benefits of an upper body ergometer do not just come down to a vanity play of getting a little arm candy, it also comes down to overall health. That’s why upper body ergometers (UBE) are so widely used by elite athletes and sports...
Swim Training with Excy as an Upper Body Ergometer
The Excy Swimmer Arm cranking with Excy as an upper body ergometer offers so many amazing ways to build strength in your arms and shoulders, while also incinerating calories. In today’s live streaming challenge at Excy.LIVE, we explored what we call the Excy Swimmer...
Best Way to Exercise While Watching TV
Lets face it, some of us need to park ourselves in front of the TV on occasion and sometimes more often than we’d like to admit. So, why not turn that time into an opportunity to exercise while watching TV from the comfort of your own couch! There are all sorts of...
Full Body Strength Training With Excy. No Gym Required.
If you think you’re too old or out of shape to strength train, rest assured. People have successfully started strength training in their 70s, 80s, and even 90s, and you can too! The same goes for people who are not active. You will need to begin slowly and build up...
Upper Body Arm Cycling With a Knee Injury
Over the weekend, my son hurt his knee (avulsion fracture) during motocross. We will not know the full extent of his knee injury until the swelling is down, a complete range of motion test can be done, and possibly an MRI. Thankfully he was wearing knee braces and we...
My CrossFit Experience: Not Into No Pain, No Gain
It feels like it has been raining non-stop in Seattle. Seriously, this year, we’re not the Rainy City, we are the gray, wet, and cold to the bone city. I’m tired of being muddy, tired of being wet, tired of winter boots and sweaters, and if another snow day is called,...
Spring Forward!
Just like our clocks this weekend in the majority of the country, the season for getting in shape will “spring forward!” To help spring your health goals forward now, but pay later, we are happy to our rental program! We feel so confident that you’ll love the quality,...
Moving With Strength to Maintain My Weight
If you’ve been following our 30–day introduction live streaming series or our 30-day HIIT challenge, I often mention that my Excy workouts tend to be 20 minutes, 5-6 days a week. I go as hard as I can for 45 seconds at high resistance, and then rest for 30 seconds....