When does this start being fun??

As everything else does at one time or another my treadmill crapped out on me. 700$ to fix it, says the repair man happily.
Yeah.. not so happy when I showed him to the door.

I paid 1200$ for it 5 years ago. I've gotten much mileage out of it but it shouldn't have given up the ghost without a fighting chance. It decided to act like it had been taken over by a malicious poltergeist with a penance for punishment. ( Say that five times fast  ha ha )
The belt now goes faster than the six million dollar man can handle. The whine and pitch coming off of it is akin to nails on a chalkboard. Gee, thanks for the good times, treadmill, but no thanks for taking my options away from me.

However, not all is a loss, I have a gym membership. Free access to all kinds of torturous devices, many of which I steer clear of by reason of hell! even I know my limits and that weird contraption is so off limits. So I use free weights, the treadmill, the elliptical, the bosu ball and other accessories there.  I also partake in the knock me down, shoot me now classes of a particularly favorite trainer of mine. Why I like her, I've NO idea. The happier she is coming into class the more it's going to hurt I've come to discover. I always say,' Jillian who??' after I've survived finished her class.

Oh but I'm sorry, I seem to have gotten away from the point of this post.
( Which by the way happens to be my 301st post. Just saying)

I always do 20 minutes of cardio, be it on the treadmill or elliptical. I wanted to try something different today, based on a commercial I saw about the hybrid treadmill stair climber. Below is the iPhone pics of my results of the three methods I've used.

Treadmill- 20 minutes. Incline 2% . Walk 2@ 3.5, Jog 2@4.0 .Last six minutes Jog

Elliptical 20 minutes. Incline 3. Average speed: 6.8 

Treadmill 20 minutes. Incline 15% @ 3.5 (despite what it says, I did two minutes of 3.1)

Look at the incline of 15%. Calories burned- 244. Over double of the other two. Let me tell you how much more of a sweat I got doing it this way. I read that it builds much more lean muscle mass to boot. Repeat after me : Um Hell Ya!
This way is my new favorite. I hate every moment of it but my body's saying otherwise.

Sigh. My body wins.
It best show some appreciation soon, stupid defiant 49 year old carcass.