Workout machine

When we moved to our rented house 2 years ago, I dreaded to walk the boys in the heat.  The reason was in that particular neighborhood, there were hardly any mature trees.  All the trees along the sidewalks were so skinny that do not give any shade at all.  What I did was I bought an elliptical machine with a power incline ramp and pre-programmed workouts with ramp incline increments of 5 at a time.  I find that this machine is much more usable than the other machines we have at home like the Bowflex which is sitting in the corner of the exercise room collecting dust.