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I have a heart rate monitor that reads accumulated calories as a function of heart rate, age, and weight. I have always thought that a good way of measuring calories associated with exercise, specifically cardio. I use sportline 660, kind of dated but I have a high degree of confidence in it. It is a chest strap style…

This is Kind of an interesting thread. I am trying to remember how long I have been going to spin class or how many HRMs I have burned out (corroded with sweat). I have always had a HRM for that exercise. Sportline 660 was my favorite. I kind of didn't know much about zones but my HRM had a percent of max HR so I always…

These scales are weird. I got a digital and I got an analog spring scale. My friend is the analog spring. The digital calls me five pounds heavier every time. I think I am going to take that digital to the Goodwill. But alas, that damn thing is consistent with the scale the doc weighs me on. Tell me if this is weird.…

Walking your dog for 4 miles every other day is OK big time. That is called adding quality to your life, your dogs life and your husband's life, big time. Let's stay in touch. Get descriptive about what you see and what you like. What is it that makes you want more life?

I thought about juvenile porcupine. It was pretty fast though. My ideas about porcupines is they aren't all that fast. Young ones, I don't know. That might be the best guess. I just off a call from the Forest Service. I left voice message to their biologist. Can't wait to see what she has to say about it. I like to take…

Oh no, not a whistle pig. I am quite familiar with those guys. This thing was smaller than a football, didn't have a tail, had kind of spikey fur that brownish peppered with white that kind of gave an overall grey look. I been looking at wildlife pictures everywhere trying to figure that guy out. I might call the forest…

I can't imagine being 165. We are talking high school weight here. My next goal is like 179 and that is not a big step. Maybe I should be thinking BF of less than 20. I should do some lifting though. Combination of my posture and upper body mass gives me a bit of a cringe when I look in the mirror. But what the heck, I am…

Yes, but when I was young I wasn't much for active. Pretty sedentary. Smoked. Drank a lot. So I mostly agree with you, but I can still say I am more fit. I ain't as fit as you though. 16.9% Dang! I thought I was hot stuff for getting under 25% You are my new inspiration. I am going to re-up my gym membership.

Heh! Today I went climbing to try out my new fitness tracker watch. So that thing connects to a doodad called strava and this here MFP. So I climbed 3300 feet in 2 hours and 30 minute. I don't sound so impressive when I tell you that the round trip was only 20 miles. But it has this thing called PR's. Personal records. So…

This is my "climbing" playlist. I got it on my ipod shuffle. It runs for like 90 minutes. I climb for that 90 minutes and typically get 2000 feet vertical and a 1300 calorie burn. When I am really ambitious I will run it for several iterations until the battery runs out. I generally lose several pounds when I do that. That…