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Heart Rate Questions
According to most Max Heart Rate calculators, my max heart rate for my age is 176. During a typical 60 minute run, my HRM says my heart rate gets up to 166 bpm. Thats pushing 95% of my max. I'm not going to explode or suffer any other ill effects, am I? And what is with the significance of exercising between 65% or 80% of…
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a NSV and a NSV?
We had an photography appointment tonight for the wife and our two adult children to have our portraits done. The first NSV occurred to me when I went to buy some new clothes for the occasion. I dropped from what was a snug 36 waist jeans to a comfortable 33, and my *kitten* looks smokin in 'em! The second was kind of…
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Beginner's Yoga DVD Recommendations?
I am looking for a Beginner's Yoga Tape mostly to increase my flexibility and to give me something to do on my rest days from strength training...so it shouldn't be too demanding. I've messed around with Yoga on my kid's Wii Fit, and while I enjoyed the Yoga bit, I didn't care much for doing it on the Wii. Does anyone know…
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Morning Motivation
My exercise regimen currently includes 45 minutes on the treadmill at the gym during my lunch hour everyday. However, I'm really wanting to give this 30 Day Shred a try, but that's not really something I could do in the middle of the day so that's leaves the mornings before I go to work. The problem is I am not a morning…
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Just found the forums
I've been using MFP through my phone for nearly two months now and only recently have I discovered these forums. Lotsa good stuff in here! At any rate, I'm basically here to work on becoming more active and fit. Having spent most of my adult life in the US Army, staying fit was sort of a requirement for my employment. Once…
