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what's more important?
What's more important, meeting the number of minutes exercised goal or calories burned during exercise?
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My F11 Just arrived!
Just got back to my cube and there was a big priority mail box here waiting for me. Now to figure out how to use this beast! Just think, with the help of this thing I'll soon look like one of those Greek God statues :laugh:
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Body For Life - 12 Week Challenge
Hi all I'm starting the Body For Life 12 week challenge today and I'm really excited as hundreds of people have done it and look fantastic!!!! I just thought I'd share with you all so you could see if you were interested, it is a free challenge (at my gym anyway!) and is sponsored by EAS (protein shake company) but you…
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Burned 1687 Calories
I went snow shoeing today for 3+ hours, we only took one 5 minute break, otherwise we just kept going. The loop was only about 8 miles, but it was tough...the snow was wet and heavy due to being late in the season, and the hills were tough. There were many soft spots where the snow was so soft that I sunk in about a foot…
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Training for a Tri
I have been in training for a sprint triathalon for a couple months now, and I did my first brick today. Its when you do two back to back exercises. So I did 25 min of cycling (pulling my daughter in the chariot) and then 25 min of running (puching my daughter this time). The cycling was good, but I was tired when I…
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Does anyone have a Mio Heart Rate Monitor?
I was looking on Amazon for one and ended up buying this one. It's the one for women. Any experience with this brand?
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge. . .May 11
Happy Mother's day! (to the Moms out there). So, today I go to dance class for an hour and a half, and I'll walk there and back (1 hour total). I'm also going to try to get an hour of housework in. So, I discovered yesterday that my favorite spin class gets canceled during the summer, so yesterday was the last one until…
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Dancing the night away
Hello to all, I just found out that my weight is affecting my dancing lesson. I am learning how to step which is simalar to ballroom dancing. I am doing this 4 days a week , 2 hours a day. This dancing thing really tells you how fit you are. I can barely dance 30 minutes without needing my astma pump. Thats the downside of…
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Running - the mind blocks
ARGH!!! :explode: I KNOW I can make it up this one stupid hill, but my brain stops me every dern time!!! It's not the longest, it's not the steepest...but I always walk the last 20 yards regardless!!! :explode: I want to do a 1/2 marathon in August, but my brain tells me a 10k that that's all I can do. :explode: I need to…
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Biking???
Does anyone here do leisurely biking as their exercise. I was wondering how people like it and if it is an enjoyable way to exercise. I rode a bike all the time when I was a kid, but in the past 15 or so years I have only done it once and I must say I was quite wobbly. But we have a nice park behind our apartment, its is…
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NUTRITION ADVICE FOR A SWIMTEAM SWIMMER
This is such an awesome community, and so full of "fitness gurus", of which I am definitely NOT, I would like to ask your nutrition advice for my son. Actually I have two swimteamers, but my 13-year old son is a very motivated, going for the gold, swimmer. He has not totally gone through puberty yet, I suspect because of…
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I LOVE MY HRM!
Been using my HRM for 4 days now and I love it!!!!!! It has been so enlightening to see what I'm really burning in calories. Interestingly--MFP estimates low for my stationary bike but high when I enter in for riding my bike outside. And, I found out that I've been pushing myself too hard when riding and probably going WAY…
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Exercise videos - Your fave
Which ones work? Which ones don't?? I just got the "Biggest Loser - Cardio Max" and tried it out a couple nights ago. Was thinking afterwards, that wasn't so bad, but the next morning felt like someone went over me with a tire iron. :laugh: It was good though. Have a old Jane Fonda step aerobics tape which is good, and I'm…
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Nike + iPod
My husband got me a Nike + iPod for Mother's Day (so much better than jewelry) and I used it for the first time this morning. It was awesome! It tracks calories burned, time and distance and I set a goal to burn 800 calories. So it told me on every 100 calories and then every 20 when I was on my last 100. It's so…
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5K
I just had to share with a few more people (since my family is getting sick of hearing about it and I"m still thrilled ~ and shocked). I finished my first 5K since 2003 (Race agains breast cancer) and did it in 25:47!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My goal was 28 minutes - then once I heard the weather report, it was to finish…
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge - May 10
Happy Weekend! Yesterday I did the Bob's BL low & high and did some walking for 530 calories. Today I'm up way to early to go to strength class. Every once and a while I experiment with the "get it over with" mentality. I got Yoga Burn in the mail yesterday so I might do that too. I did something stupid yesterday - I was…
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NUTRITION ADVICE FOR A SWIMTEAM SWIMMER
This is such an awesome community, and so full of "fitness gurus", of which I am definitely NOT, I would like to ask your nutrition advice for my son. Actually I have two swimteamers, but my 13-year old son is a very motivated, going for the gold, swimmer. He has not totally gone through puberty yet, I suspect because of…
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Sunny Day
Did anyone else get a bright sunny day...finally?!!
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Outdoor Activities... I need some ideas
So i have treadmill, a stationary bike, some weights & an exercise ball at home and sometimes they just don't cut it and I get extremely BORED while using them. I wanna get out and do something that is semi interesting and I can burn some calories. I have a bike so I suggested to my BF that we go and ride bikes at some…
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Here's what I'm trying to figure out...
...you all must be so sick of my HRM questions but here goes. How long should one remain "in the zone," i.e. is it better to STAY in the zone throughout the cardio workout, or is it better to DIP consistently and heroically in and out of the zone during the workout? Let's say it's a 60 minute workout. I set my HRM to 75 or…
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge - May 9
Glorious Friday! There is a small voice in the back of my head that can't wait to step on the scale on Monday. There's also a small voice that tells me to stop obsessing about my weight. It will say stuff like "100,000 people died in Myanmar and your worried about a pound of fat?" Not that I think what we do here isn't…
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toning and strngth training
So, yesterday I posted the question: If I have lost 20 lbs, how come I haven't changed pants size. One reply was right on target, these pants didn't really fit very well, I just refused to buy a bigger size.. More than one reply suggested toning. So my question is, are toning and strength training the same? And what should…
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Tummy help needed...
Okay so I obviously am watchin my calories... I am at the gym at least 4-5 times a week on the treadmill or the bike for at least 30mins sometimes 45 or 60mins. I do situps on my ball most nights. I do 3-5 sets of 15. Sometimes with alil 4lbs weights. So my bottom lil pouch of tummy is slowly disappearing.. like I am not…
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge - May 8
The countdown has begun! 10 days left to show us what you're made of. I'm cutting back for this week. I'm aiming for 500 calorie workouts. This puts my food intake under 2000, so I went over a bit yesterday and will probably go over a bit each day. Next week, I amp it up again, then two weeks of vacation. Some people like…
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any cool fitness workout plan websites?
I'm looking for a great online resource for various workout plans that I can choose from daily/weekly. any suggestions?
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Jogging...
I'm so excited because I ran 6 miles today with the kids in the stroller this morning (90lbs including 2 kids and stroller). There were a ton of hills and it was awesome. I burnt 560cals in exactly 60 minutes!! The kids are being so good, they came out of the stroller saying how much fun they had. I know I'm running a…
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Lower Back Pain
I was at an exercise class today, and it almost felt like my back went out. My lower back is killing me, mostly when I bend. I put tiger balm on it, and just recently took some robaxcet. Should I see a doctor or just wait it out?>?> Thanks PS If it happened to any of you...any tips??
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Help! BMR 1,987???
I am allowed 1200 calories a day but I just checked my BMR after reading another blog and it is 1,987! How can by calories allowed be more than my BMR? Does anyone understand this? :smile:
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? about calories burned
Hey everybody. I don't know if there are any other horse people out there, there's such a wide variety of folks on here, I thought somebody might be able to help me! My question is, how many calories do you think longeing a green horse uses? This of course isn't on caloriesperhour.com! :tongue: I have two young horses that…
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My HRM Just Arrived!
My Highgear HRM just arrived! Took a little bit to figure out but I've got it going now and the chest strap even fits me! :tongue: Heading out now to test it.