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I had a busy "fitness day". I hit the gym and did 40 minutes on the Octane (love that machine, so smooth and uses both arms and legs). Then on to the elliptical for 30 minutes. After leaving the gym I went to a local trail and walked the one mile length--it has lots of up and down hills and is very pretty.. Then at 6PM I…

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I have been using a Fitbit Charge HR since January and like it very much. I was already pretty physically active but seeing amounts on the Fitbit Dashboard (on my laptop or phone) really helps keep track of how much activity, was it just "regular" steps or active ones, seeing heart rate tracking, etc, has helped me do just…

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B B King

I've been physically pretty active for many years--I am at the gym 5-6 days weekly and ride bikes several days weekly (20+ mile rides) in all but winter weather. But I constantly struggle with weight gain. My high school class had our 50th reunion last summer and I hated the photos of myself that were posted in the candid…

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Just remember you cannot lose excess fat (stomach or anywhere) with strength training. (Well unless you do a thousand reps or so to burn a lot of calories). You can and well might tighten and strengthen the underlying muscle layer, but fat is only lost by having calorie deficit that makes your body utilize the excess fat…

I'm enjoying seeing all the great thoughts and comments from this group. I'm enjoying my last couple of days of spring break--it always goes by too fast. As usual the weather in Kansas has not been too cooperative. It was lovely on Monday, sunny and in the 80's. Then the bottom fell out. Yesterday it struggled to hit the…

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SO true. You do not gain significant "Muscle weight" just because you are exercising (mainly aerobic activity) on a regular basis. And you simply cannot attribute weight gain to "oh it's muscle gain" because you have been using machines or free weights for a couple of weeks. It just doesn't work that way.

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