Exercise is Our Friend Topic

Airedalegal 10/29/10 replied to Jodie
Yeah, once I saw the difference I can't hardly stay on a treadmill now. I use it for warm-up and cool down. That has been the nice thing about the new gym, it has a wide variety of aerobic machines. Now I am splitting the time between different machines. They all burn around the same.

Until I can run (still too heavy) my poor dog is suffering, I don't walk as much.

Ccmandel 10/30/10
Airedalegal...kudos to you for getting infused with new energy on the ellipticals.

I prefer the elliptical for more calorie burning and the perceived workout is better too...at least for me.


I make sure to input my weight and age and I consider the machine the most valueable number because of this.

This is a machine at our gym which allows you to alter your stride -- this gives me the largest number of calories burned for a 30-40 min workout ~350

I also find that the interval workouts burn more calories and I am more invested in them.

Great going!

Susan

Kamdis 10/31/10 replied to Airedalegal
Airedalegal, my HRM actually calculates calories based on height, weight, age, gender and heart rate. I got it at Target on sale. I think it's New Balance brand.

Airedalegal 11/01/10 replied to Kamdis
Thanks Kamdis. I appreciate the info!

Esra_oz 11/02/10
I used to run about 6 miles three times a week but ended up straining my achilles tendon so running is out for a while.

Instead my physio said to get on the cross-trainer (elliptical) and use that as the impact is less and the cals burnt per hour is similar (but not quite as good)

I love it. I was on for 30 minutes today. Set it to level 10 and stayed above 60rpm the whole time and ended up burning about 580 cals.

It's a great way to burn the cals while your heavier or injured.

Airedalegal 11/02/10 replied to Esra_oz
Yeah, I am too heavy and have knees that are shot through with arthritis. No pounding activities for me! So I also love the elliptical. I,m not quite at level ten yet either. Some day! ;0)

Clochette2 11/03/10
Back at the beginning of my journey, my physical therapist recommended the stationary bike for some knee pain I was having. It is supposed to help by pumping in the fluid to lubricate your knee joint. The PT said that the trick is to keep your level set so you can maintain your RPM speed at between 90 to 100--lower resistance but faster pedaling. It really did help my knees.

Airedalegal 11/08/10 replied to Clochette2
Thanks, I had heard that too. I don't tend to like to sit for my exercise if I can stand and use my arms too. More muscles more calories burned. I have a long way to go yet! I was hoping that the elliptical motion would meet some of that criteria for the knee. So far, so good. I use the bike for a fallback on bad knee days.

Teelameer 11/08/10 replied to Clochette2
Thanks for the tip about the bike. I have bad knees and I'm going to see if the less resistance and faster pedaling helps. It certainly hurts less to do it that way.

Sune 11/26/10 replied to Teelameer
From what I've been able to observe, the exercise machines with HR monitors aten't super accurate. I usually burn about 400 calories (according to my pulse watch) on the elliptical machine in 30, and the machine usually tells me around 300. I've seen it overestimate as well.

This Tuesday I burned 602 calories in 30 minutes, which was a new personal best. I did also have an average HR of 162, which is 90% of my maximum for my age.

:)

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