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Wearable Tech
Hi everyone. I have some questions about the best wearable fitness trackers on the market. My wish list includes: HR monitor, calories burned, wireless music streaming, alarm, sweatproof. I have a polar heartrate monitor and while I liked it, it stopped working. I would like to use it mostly for calorie burn monitoring as…
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Step Aerobics
Hi all! Finally reached my goal of 47lbs. It's actually 51 now! I run 3 days a week about 5-8 miles per session. The other 3 days I do DVDs with weights and resistance bands. My running times have improved significantly but on my long runs I find my knees getting really sore. I used to do step aerobics years ago and have a…
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Heart rate monitor calorie burn ?
I recently received a polar ft4 monitor for Mother's Day. I love it btw! I used it all afternoon while I was rotatilling and planting my garden. I spent about 330 minutes in the garden and my monitor tells me that I burned 1500 calories! Is this really accurate? I won't eat back that many calories, but I'm just wondering…
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Calling all Runners!
Little background first. I started exercising and watching my calories in January of this year. I have thankfully lost 20lbs! I did it by running 6.5mph 3miles 3x a week on the treadmill and 3 days a week of weight/resistance band training. I ran a 6km race in March with the last 2km at a 10% grade. Ok time of 42 mins (in…
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Losing inches but...
I'm not seeing the scale move. I'm a bit of an instant gratification kind of person and once I start something I like to see results! I started to exercise and watch what I eat for the last 9 weeks. Had great results initially on the scale with a loss of 13lbs but now the scale won't move. I am eating a deficit netting…
