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    in The Movie Game Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • I'm suspicious of the calculated calorie burn thing - quite a few online calculators including MFP rate 60 minutes of cycling at 600+ calories which just seems too high to me. My Heart rate monitor has it at 500 - 550 calories but I'm still suspicious. If I'm eating to replace the calories I burnt then I think I'm in…
    in Am I just a whiny *B*? Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • I'm no expert but when I took up running I found I was getting weaker and slower through the week. I read a book about heart rate training that basically told me I was always training in no man's land (150-170bpm for me). I needed to interval train at more than 170bpm, and I needed to recover at less than 150bpm - which…
    in Overtraining? Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • 41 (in 3 days time) feel free to add me.
    in Looking for friends in their 40s Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • Just started this week, happy to help out and keep you motivated. anyone feel free to add me.
    in Friends for motivation Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • I'd always heard that free weights were best as other muscles get involved to keep you stable etc. I know that if I do press-ups vs. chest press machine I can really feel it in my stomach which is engaged in press-ups but not on the machine. However I can't train my chest any more doing press-ups because my abdominals are…
    in Weight machines vs. free weights Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • I use one, particularly for running. I bought the Garmin FR60 with chest strap and thing for my shoe - so it tells me how far and fast I run and my heart rate, calories etc. Then I bought the thing that goes on my bike so the watch can tell me my distance, cadence etc. when I'm cycling too. I recommend the book "heart…
    in Heart Rate Monitor? Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • Congratulations, that's a great achievement - you're a runner now! When I did this I struggled to make the leap to running more than 15 minutes. I bought a heart rate monitor on the advice of a friend and found that my natural pace of about 10kph resulted in a heart rate in the 170s. I slowed myself down to keep my heart…
    in C to 5K success Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • 40 year old male on South Coast - I just found these forums yesterday although had MFP on my phone for a while - feel free to add me - the more people that can hold me to account - the more likely I am to stick with this.
    in anyone from uk?? Comment by steve2kay September 2013
  • Good luck. I've had this app on my phone for a while and never really used it properly or committed to it. I'd decided to start a new routine this week to try and get myself in shape - cycling to work, logging what I eat for a week then work out where I'm eating poorly or over-eating and then cut it out. I started to log…
    in REALLY restarting...for real this time... Comment by steve2kay September 2013
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