StairMaster

People, on the whole, tend to enjoy watching movies more than they enjoy slogging away on the StairMaster.

So I will do maybe 20 minutes of a nice walk on the treadmill, then I’ll do another 20 minutes on the Stairmaster.

There are now brands that combine rowing and weights, StairMaster and weights, climbing and weights, boxing and weights, spinning and weights, treadmill-rowing-and-weights, and so on, and major gym chains have introduced boot-camp-style workouts to their class schedules.

“It’ll be a little StairMaster at the end,” she warned us.

The next few hours were like being on a StairMaster with a magnificent view.