Well, more fun than running on the treadmill. Since it's freezing outside, I have found the next best thing to running at the gym. I have found a machine that I enjoy using - the Precor EFX elliptical cross trainer. It's not like a regular elliptical that has you swinging your legs a short distance. It works out your entire lower body, the butt, thighs and calves by allowing you to adjust the incline. The higher the incline, the more you're able to bend your knees as you glide. It's like using an elliptical and stair climber at the same time. It also glides better than a regular elliptical.

I find myself going right to this machine and if all of them are taken, I work on something else until one is free. I find it has been most effective to me, in combination with those leg exercises I do everyday. My legs feel soar today - I think that means it's all working!

What a change of feeling to actually have a machine I prefer to exercise on instead of dreading them all together.