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Portable Exercise Bike for Children with Special Needs
Yesterday when visiting my son’s school, I noticed a portable exercise cycle outside of the special needs classroom. Ever since we started creating the Excy portable exercise bike, in addition to making an amazing fitness experience more convenient overall, we also in...
Nike Launches Largest Women’s Campaign Ever
This week, Nike launched its largest women’s campaign ever called #betterforit and there are several reasons to love how the initiative takes aim at supporting and motivating women's athletic journeys. The company says the campaign is about "powering [women] to be...
Busy Lives Need Exercise Too and High Intensity Interval Training Fits
All too often our busy schedules sideline our own fitness goals. But, as this article points out in POPSUGAR, the news keeps getting better for those of us trying to fit fitness into a busy life (will even get more convenient and fun with Excy). First, just 20 minutes...
Awesome 20 Minute Upper Body HIIT Workout with Leg Injury
Finally off the crutches, but can't quite get my heart rate up enough with my legs during rehab, so squeezed in an awesome upper body Excy HIIT workout tonight. One reason we're so excited about Excy is that it does so much more than a traditional exercise bike,...
507 Calories Burned in 40 Minutes with Excy Upper Body HIIT Workout
Last night I got a notification via MapMyRide that a friend did a stationary bike training exercise via the PEAR Personal Coach application for 50 minutes and burned 577 calories. So, I wanted to see how long it would take me to burn 500 calories with a sole focus on...
Sneak Peek at Excy Portable Exercise Cycle Upper Body HIIT Workout
As we highlighted in the Excy blog post “Best 2015 Guide to Buying an Exercise Bike,” there are so many names for the spinning exercise favorite ranging from stationary cycle, exercise bicycle, exercise bike, studio cycle, indoor bike or exercycle. At Excy, we prefer...
Best 2015 Guide to Buying an Exercise Bike
Stationary cycle, exercise bicycle, exercise bike, studio cycle, indoor bike or exercycle? At Excy, we don’t care what you call it! We just love the amazing health benefits of this staple piece of exercise equipment and its low-impact and high-gain cardio exercise...
Differences Between Working Out in Your 40s vs. 30s and 20s
There is an article in PopSugar this week talking about the differences between working out in your 20s vs. your 30s. The article is pretty humorous, highlighting the differences between workout motivation, types of workouts, workout attire, and other things like what...
Excy Thoughts: First Plus-Size Model in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition
Model Robyn Lawley has her own bathing suit line (entrepreneur), doesn’t like to focus on labels (authentic), wants to help women in general accept their bodies (keep it real), and has been asked to focus on staying healthy and be herself? Such an awesome story as...
Family Matters Most: Final Startup Ideal Captured from Breaking a Leg
Caring Strangers Effect Positive Outcomes and True Friends Are a Warm Refuge. Those are the two ideals we highlighted in Part 1 and Part 2 of our Excy startup blog posts series to capture the silver lining in breaking a leg as we prepare to bring our portable exercise...