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Words of Wisdom
Not sure if this is the right section for this, but I'm putting it up anyway. This is meant as a bit of advice for you youngsters out there, I'm not saying it's suited to everyone, but this is my bit. In my youth, I was really active. Football (Soccer to out friends across the pond) was my life, it's all I did at any spare…
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NSV
Last night I had a bath, usually I shower but last night I was so cold I decided to warm myself with a soak so had my first bath before Christmas. Being what they call a "big boy" there is no way that I can cover myself in water in my bath, I do my best by wriggling down as low in the water as I can get. However, I cannot…
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Runtastic, how accurate?
I'm a little unsure as to the legitimacy of the "burn" claims for walking. Today I have apparently burned 477 calories and walked less than 3 miles at what has to be said, was a sedentary pace. OK I was walking for a little over 1 hour in total (24 mins + 41 mins) but 4767 calories does seem a little high to me. I…
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Runtastic Query.
I have just completed my lunchtime walk, I covered 1.58 miles at an average 4.12 MPH and burned 168 Kcals. Last week a similar walk with a colleague yielded the following, 1.62 miles at 2.38 MPH burning 299 Kcals. Am I to believe that if I walk slower I burn more calories?
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Striiv?
I'm trying the Striiv app for a few days, however, I'm a little dubious over the calorific burn claims. So far today I've took 6002 paces over a 70 minuTe period covered 2.8 miles and burned 891 calories? The calories burned seems a little excessive to me compared to the effort exerted, anyone have an opinion on this?
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What Scales?
Can someone recommend some good cheap scales? The one's I'm using are my daughters which I believe were the cheapest in Argos, and while I don't want all singing and dancing expensive ones I would like some that work.
