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Save the News Feed!!!!!! It’s the biggest part of what keeps me here every day .

I track everything on my Apple Watch and enter once a day on MFP as Apple Calories. This simplified logging exercise. Wish I could find a similar method for food....

Both. Kayaking, walking, biking, rowing, all done from home. Daily elliptical and weight lifting at the gym. I wouldn't want to devote the space or the money into the equipment I'd need for a home gym. Besides, then I'd have to clean around it LOL

I have found that entering my exercise calories manually works best. I currently use an Apple Watch to track my daily calorie burn and enter the prior days number first thing in the morning on the following day. Rather than tracking individual workouts on MFP I created an exercise called "Apple Calories" to use for my…

The US ranks right near the top of the most obese countries in the world. Average restaurant meals are 4 times larger than they were in the 1950's. 96% of entrees at chains exceed dietary guidelines for sodium, fat, and saturated fat per meal. Between 1986 and 2016 fast food restaurants increased serving sizes by 226%. We…

I have an Apple watch and iPhone. I don't even bother trying to synch them with MFP (obviously they synch with each other). Rather, when I log in each day I simply record my calorie expenditure from the prior day as Apple Calories and leave it at that. I lift weights and do cardio daily, for Apple Calorie purposes I lump…

I just had work done on my left foot a couple of months ago that required me to stay off of it for two weeks then slowly start using it again (I'm currently allowed one walk a day of 1.75 miles, increasing by .25/week). I spent a lot of the down time working my upper body with free weights and machines. As the foot began…

I do a circuit in the gym of 26 lifts/exercises, 3x10. Takes about 70 minutes with no breaks other than moving from station to station and 3 minutes between circuits. Apple watch says I burned 391 cals, MFP strength training comes in at 385 cals, but MFP circuit training, general counts 1027 cals. I use my Apple Watch to…

LOL You got me at "1 1/2 cups Trix cereal (768 cal)". You could actually eat a lot of very nutritious food for that many calories, even better cereals, instead of highly refined/processed white flour. Is all of your cardio done on the elliptical? And where are the vegetables/fruits? Being a college student you may not have…

I've used the elliptical for years. It's a fantastic for weight loss and give a great cardio workout but getting to enjoy it is another story all together. Put in your ear buds and crank up your favorite music. Intervals can keep it from getting overly boring and make the time go by faster - I like 30 seconds as fast as…

Presses, flys, dips, and pushups about covers it. Google for chest exercises to develop muscle to see the proper forms and variants.

If you have access to a kayak it makes for a great low impact workout. I'm not the best swimmer so I wear a life jacket at all times. Smaller, calm bodies of water are great for learning.

I always loved running with my GSD at 4am in the winter (as long as I didn’t have snow to shovel :) Once i figured out the clothing layers, which were less than I thought, the beauty of winter running kept me at it. Clear crisp skies make for awesome star gazing. Listening to the owls talking is music for my soul. Ice…

If you pick "other, open goal" as a workout activity your Apple Watch will give you a calorie count. It is based on their metric and from what I can tell it is high. Once you have some data you can see where your HR actually is during your workout. If not it will give you "move" calories based on your HR (which it is very…

I have found my Apple Watch Series 6 to be very accurate on both of these measurements. I've compared it's HR to multiple machines and checked it with doctor's office metrics and it is dead on or within a very small margin of error. It's step count works as well as my Garmin.

Sorry I have no fix for you. This is why I choose not to link my iPhone or iWatch and instead manually log my exercise calories each morning when I log in. I'm running a day behind on calorie burn but it's all relative. Good luck.

I used PF as a secondary gym for a year when I was traveling regularly to the Buffalo area. I always found the staff friendly and the cleanliness was A+. They had more than enough cardio equipment of all varieties and on lifting days I had no problem completing my routine. PF isn't big on free weights but there are plenty…

I workout 7 days a week. In the summer I follow this schedule over 3 days: cardio, weights, kayaking. Cardio is TM running at various paces, etc for 45 min to 1 hour, occasionally elliptical for an hour; weights are circuits of 19 lifts (all muscle groups), 10 reps each, 3 minute rest between circuits, for 1 to 1.5 hours;…

The latest guidelines state that older men should only receive TRT for sexual dysfunction. I'm 64 and also don't feel the way I did in my 30's and 40's but then I don't think that I should. If you are looking to feel generally better have your vitamin D levels checked - more likely you're vitamin D deficient than T…

I think most of us are in the same boat. I stopped going to the gym last year because the risk of covid on top of cancer treatment was just too great (and the doctors ordered me not to go as well). Now that I'm full vaccinated and treatments are over (and so far successful) I've started back on my every other day strength…

I did a 10K program but you can just as easily add mileage or time as described above. Speed will come with the more miles you put on your soles. I kept thinking I had to run faster and this led to injury. Learn the Art of Slow Running and do 80 - 85% of your runs slowly. Break it up with a hill day, speed day, repeat day,…

This is one of the many reasons that I do not link any fitness tracker to MFP (they have enough issues just trying to keep the site itself working). I have always added my exercise calories manually in which case you can get the totals that you actually achieve. Currently I am using an Apple Watch and am recording the…

My sleep has been erratic at best for the last bunch of months; last night I got 4.5 hours total. I still get up and workout first thing in the morning, mostly cardio right now but if our gyms ever reopen I will be lifting 3 days a week as well. I always workout fasted; dark roast coffee helps after the workout is complete…

I gave up my Fitbit 3 years ago and don't miss it at all. And I think 1.5 years is good - mine only lasted a bit over 12 months. I use a Garmin w/HR strap when running to track real time data that I can use in the moment. Fitness trackers are notoriously inaccurate considering their cost and lack of durability.

Walkers and runners are using opposite sides of the road here. The bicyclist's tend to move across the double yellow. Luckily, with so little traffic. there is a lot of room on the roads we use :)

We just had to cancel our son's wedding for Memorial Day weekend :( I learned long ago that the only thing I have any control over are my own actions - to that end I am trying to keep moving each day and watching my nutrition and calorie consumption. These are strange and distressing times and motivation seems to wane with…

I had this fear when I first started. It turned out that the folks at my gym were nothing but encouraging and helpful. Over time I have developed several lasting friendships and have a regular group of "lifting buddies" that I look forward to seeing each day. Go, enjoy, stop worrying.

You might want to check out the JLab Audio - JBuds Air Sport True Wireless. I just ordered a pair that should be here today. The Sound Guys give them excellent ratings for gym/workout use and they are reasonably prices at $69.99.

Doctor told me I should never do a BB back squat again - unless of course I like the feeling of the pinched nerve in my neck :( Because squats start all of my lifting routines I switched it up and started doing goblet squats and compound squats w/dumbbells. Google "squats" and you will find a whole realm of squat…

As a newbie runner running 6 days out of 7 seems a bit over the top. When your knee heals try cutting back to every other day, spend 85% of your time slow running, give your muscles, tendons, and joints time to get used to the new stresses you are placing on them. Try following a running plan - Couch to 5K (C25K) is a…