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Am I the only one?
Am I the only one who is reluctant to give out personal information in public forums? I've given out some, for sure, but there's some info I would never put online. Some of the information I've seen given out on MFP forums: The town you grew up in. The street you lived on. How long you've been married. How many times…
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Weight loss affecting Martial Arts performance
My style of karate is Uechi-ryu. It is considered a "hard" style (as opposed to a "soft" style). One of the biggest parts of our style is a test we perform for our first kata called Sanchin Testing. The kata is Sanchin, and the test involves removing your shirt, and standing in your Sanchin Stance while the tester strikes…
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HRM wierdness
We have two Polar HRMs in my family. I have the FT4, and my wife has the FT40. She is consistently getting lower calorie numbers than I do, which I would expect because men generally burn more than women do. However, the difference we're seeing seems really high to me. This past weekend we did a 6 mile mixed walk/run. It…
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I'm superman
I just realized how much I've changed concerning my attitude towards food. This morning at work, in the little kitchenette next to my office, is a package of homemade chocolate cupcakes, and sitting next to it is a chocolate cake. In a common office area upstairs somebody brought in three containers of cookies: M&M,…
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Ready for maintenance, I think.
I am one pound away from my goal weight, but I'm not completely sure if I should loose some more pounds before maintenance. For most of my weight loss I haven't been lifting weights because of some injuries. I've started lifting a few weeks ago, easing into it slowly. Looking in the mirror, I'm not completely happy with my…
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Is this reasonable?
I've been using MFP for a while now, and I've lost 26 pounds. I'm 5' 10", and I set my goal weight at 155, based upon how my stomach looks, and I might consider going to 150. For many months, all I did was cardio workouts because I was giving my arms time to heal from tendinitis. One month ago, I started resistance…
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Aerobic exercise ideas for someone with an injury
My wife just started with MFP. She was faithfully tracking calories, and logging exercise. She was walking 5 miles per day, and started doing a 2-3 hour mountain hike twice a week. Unfortunately, while coming down the mountain, she twisted her ankle. A trip to the emergency room showed a chipped bone, and an extremely…
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Max HR vs Calories burned
I got my wife a Polar FT40 HRM, and she's been using it to get calories burned for walking. She did the built-in fitness test, but used the default Max heart rate, which was 167. She used the HRM for a 5 mile walk, walking at 4mph. The calories burned, after subtracting the BRM was 460 calories. The other day, we tried,…
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HRM and calories burned
I know this has been answered before, but I can't find it. I just got the Polar FT40 HRM (haven't used it yet), and I want to know what the "calories burned" really means. Does the number displayed by the HRM include the BMR calories as well, or is it in addition to the BMR calories? My BRM, according to MFP is 1573…
