Help KICKSTART Excy on Kickstarter
Kickstarter is such a wonderful community committed to helping artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators like Excy find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality. To date, tens of thousands of creative projects — big and...
Excy Sneak Peak: Portable Total Body Cross Training System
Thank you for all your support in bringing the Excy portable total body cross training system to market! We are getting ready to launch, but wanted to give you a sneak preview before anyone else. So, here are some of our first photos! Goodbye Sedentary Office Excy...
Excy Launching Portable Exercise Cycle at Geekwire Summit on October 1
Mark Your Calendar! We have great news to share. The time has come to showcase the world’s most portable exercise cycle and our ondemand mobile coach! We will officially unveil our carefully crafted, high quality device and app on October 1 at Geekwire Summit, a...
Are You a Health Cheerleader or The Health Police?
Two years ago I had the privilege of seeing Joel Peterson, chairman of the board for JetBlue Airways Corporation, speak at an event. He’s an amazing speaker and shared insights into lessons he’s learned over the years. One really stood out to me… “be a cheerleader—not...
An Exercise Bike in Space?
Getting in shape on planet Earth has it’s own challenges, but imagine trying to stay healthy while venturing into space? Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken a very interesting approach of using an exercise bike in space to help astronauts counteract muscle...
Amazing Story: Exercise Bike for People with Disabilities
There are so many health benefits of using an exercise bike, which is why we found this recent article so inspiring about how ex-boxing champ Gary Balletto and the Cranston YMCA are rolling out an exercise bike for people with...
As seen in Medium: Americans Are Getting Heavier
As seen in Medium. There’s a very interesting article today in the Washington Post titled “The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man.” The article goes on to point out that the average American woman weighs 166.2 pounds and that the...
Excy: How to Get Madonna’s Arms
At Excy, we love any and all insight into the best arm exercises for toning and sculpting triceps, biceps, and beautiful shoulders. Of course, we’re excited at the amazing HIIT arm workouts that Excy will conveniently provide for toning arms and burning serious...
Excy: Consider Spinning Away Calories
Want to tone your body, burn calories, and have more energy? If so, consider joining a spin classes! When Excy is ready, even consider getting some friends together at home, work, or at a park for an outdoor spin class! Or, do an Excy spin at home while watching TV...
Path to Health for Road Warriors: 5 Exercise Tips for Business Travelers
Like us, you probably have a love/hate relationship with business travel. It can be exciting to see new places, and meet new people, even learn something, but it too can quickly become an uninspiring drag from airport to hotel to conference center. Tired of the...
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...
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...
BuzzFeed: Women’s Ideal Body Types Throughout History
Excy loves this new “Women's Ideal Body Types Throughout History” video from BuzzFeed, which features a diverse cast of models and shows how the standard of beauty for women has changed dramatically over time. We love how each woman is celebrating their figure. All...