Elliptical Man Not Bad... He Just Misunderstood

Okay, so I figured out why I was failing on the elliptical. Apparently I was crouching slightly into a sitting position, which prevented my legs from directly providing upward support to my upper body. Instead, I was using doing a sort of micro-squat thrust with every step.

No wonder.

Now that I've pulled my head out of my ass, I can go for quite a while on the elliptical without a problem. And I've learned two new elliptical exercises to boot:

1. Pedalling backward works a different set of leg muscles (learned that one from the machine's manual), and
2. Pedalling with a very slight sitting position really works the living hell out of the entire lower body. I'll save this one for later.

I'm quite happy with the elliptical now. My apologies, Elliptical Man, for all those nasty things I said about you.

I was wrong.

KBO!