I mentioned for the past year I've been using a stepper to help control my diabetes. It's working. The exercise is doing wonders for my legs. However, last fall I broke a cable in the machine, and couldn't use it for a couple of weeks.
My stepper is secondhand from a local sporting goods store. I've had it for over three or four years, but haven't really used it seriously until the last year. The stepper has to be at least 10 years old and has seen better days. You can't even find new steppers. They have fallen out of fashion. So I knew the day was coming. Something would break and I would have to fix it or find something else to do for exercise. Tonight the other cable broke.
It's always something. I already have to talk myself into exercising each day. I don't need any more obstacles or excuses to keep me back. I was doing TKD at the university until they changed the rules. The new regulations added a degree of difficulty and extra expenses which made the MWF routine untenable. Then it was swimming at the local rec center. Swimming was great but changes in my class schedule made it more difficult to stick with a routine. Although, I do miss the ladies in the whirlpool afterwards. (I'm quite the stud with the AARP group in the morning.) So having a cable break in stepper is just one more thing. F*CK!
Thank God for Sportsmith. After searching for replacement parts online I found Sportsmith. I should have order a second cable in the fall after the first break, but I was too cheap. However, after paying ten dollars in shipping I should have added a second spare cable to my order. This time I ordered three cables. By God, I'm gonna ride this machine until it fall into dust!
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