My Single Mom Life

Ok, maybe not on rock n' roll, I actually shut off all the electronic noise in the house because this required some deep reading and comprehension skills.
Thank goodness my sister is awesome at this stuff.
That's right, I never did come back last night and tell you that my sis was coming over to help me put this together, so there ya go, she did!
Jo came over with the girls, and between her, Mark, Sebastian, and myself, we managed to put this together and keep 2 little girls entertained.
There were a lot of parts, many, many parts, screws, and this big wheelie part.

Lots of parts. We had all the big parts on the floor, and all the little parts and screws on the coffee table.
Yes, that is a huge stain on my rug. I have no idea what it is or how it got there.

Sebastian was really good at figuring this out and putting it together.

There were various wires we had to hook up inside of the pole parts, before we could attach the control panel.

Getting the pedals all connected and greased up.

And finally, it's all done!

It took us approximately 2 hours to put it together, not too bad for what this is actually. It's much more complicated than say, putting together a child's bike on Christmas eve.
It works really well, I rode it on the lowest setting for about 15 minutes. I will definitely have to work up to full workouts.
You can feel this in your calves, thighs, buttocks, and your arms, and because of the arm grips, your torso does get some of the movement, and as time and strength, and stamina improve, I have a feeling the core will also get a fairly decent workout.
I couldn't really do more than the 15 minutes because I never did go to sleep last night, and then was doing this all afternoon and running around playing with my girls, I was exhausted.
After Jo and the girls left, taking Sebastian with them for the night, I laid down on the couch and passed out for about 2.5 hours to catch a little bit of sleep.
After I hopefully get a good nights sleep tonight, I will give myself another 15-20 minutes on it tomorrow.
Oh yeah, for some reason, I thought this was electric, and would need to be plugged in, but it doesn't.
It takes 4 D size batteries in the control panel, to make all those programs and monitors work.
I'll have to pick some up tomorrow when I go shopping, and then I can see all the neat things this elliptical is capable of.