<p>I watched the movie, Inception, twice yesterday. I didn’t understand the movie in the theater and I still don’t.</p>
<p>I just relax the mind and think good thoughts, like Peter Pan. There was a 20 minute conversation near me yesterday that was entertaining. Two guys in their 50’s were talking. They both were complaining that they don’t understand their wives. It seems they come home drunk at night and their wives are not amused.</p>
<p>I was out of town for one night visiting kids. We stayed in a Hampton Inn where the weight room was really well equipped. I used a kettle bell, stretched, and walked on a treadmill that was equipped with a TV screen. So while I was footing it up a 10% grade, I watched cheetahs on Animal Planet running down an antelope. It was awesome. :D</p>
<p>I am not buying the calorie burn y’all are reporting for the elliptical. Elliptical is much easier than running (I have done my time on elliptical when injured) and running is about 100 calories a mile which for me in about 600 calories an hour. No way would I get that on elliptical. If you are using the readout on the machines, forget it. They are not even close to correct. That said, elliptical is a good workout and good for you guys! I can not imagine staying on the thing for 2 hours at a stretch. My feet go numb, for one thing.</p>
<p>DadII- my 200 mile shoes are not very new looking or feeling. The outsole shows wear, for one thing. I donate them.</p>
<p>Ran 5 mikes with my friend who is running the 35 miles in 35 hours. This got her to 24. We ran faster than I thought we would, and it was a push for me after the half marathon yesterday. 43 mile week and just about 50 miles to go for the year to hit my 2000 miles.</p>
<p>5K eliptical and treadmill
pullups, lat pulls corner row and two tricep exercises</p>
<p>dstark while the machines say you burn more calories on the eliptical I do not believe it. Running is far superior cardio in my opinion. The feeling after a session on the eliptical and a good session on the treadmill or outside tells me there is no comparison.</p>
<p>I haven’t tried running on the treadmill yet.</p>
<p>The elliptical has many adjustments. There are some levels on the elliptical That I can’t even do because my legs aren’t strong enough.</p>
<p>I am running the equivalent of 5 miles an hour. 12 minute miles. I weigh about 156 to 157.</p>
<p>If I weighed 125 pounds and ran 5 miles an hour, I wouldn’t burn 600 calories an hour. </p>
<p>Running is not 100 calories a mile for me. It is a lot more.</p>
<p>I haven’t run for 20 years but when I worked out back then, I ran 5 miles at an 8.5 minute a mile pace and that was harder than what I am doing now. </p>
<p>I don’t know how exact the calorie count is, but I think it is pretty good. I have lost close to 24 pounds in less than 10 weeks. That comes out to approximately 8750 calories a week…1250 calories a day. That is close to what the machines say I am burning a day.</p>
<p>@dstark: calorie counters on the elliptical machines are notorious for being incorrect. I always go by calorie burn on my HRM. Usually the elliptical machine shows me burning 40% more calories than the HRM. I know that calorie burn definitely increases the faster you go on the elliptical and also by increasing the intensity. There’s also a difference in machines. I was in a gym this summer that had a Cybex elliptical-type machine and I always burned more on that machine than on the machine I use more often (another gym). That being said–4 hours in one day on the elliptical is going to burn a ton of calories. People run marathons in 4 hours! Good job on the weight loss.</p>
<p>MomofWildChild does not burn the calories an elliptical shows. </p>
<p>In order to get a calorie count, a weight has to be entered. It looks to me like that weight can not be changed, by the rider. If you don’t weigh that weight, the calorie count will be wrong. I think my weight is close to the weight used to calculate calories. I base this on the fact that the weight is set at 150 pounds for heart beat range(that can be adjusted) and on my weight loss.
I would guess the calorie count on the machines I use are calculated at 150 pounds. If you weigh 125 pounds the calorie count is way too high
on the machines.</p>
<p>Ok…that is my opinion based on what I see.</p>
<p>Tom1944, I did cut my diet, but just slightly. If I want to eat something,
I will eat it. I am eating fewer calories a day.</p>
<p>But…I was gaining weight before I started this weight loss program.</p>
<p>This isn’t exact, but I try to eat the same calories a day that I burn
normally and have the gym take care of the weight loss.</p>
<p>Bromfield, thanks. I think what I wrote agrees with what you wrote.</p>
<p>I just ran a mile for the first time in 12 years. I ran it in 11:40. Nothing to brag about. I don’t like the pounding the body takes when running.</p>
<p>Ran a 10K on my home dreadmill (rain and sub-40 degrees outside - yuck) in 51:20. Not the speediest run, but I was happy with the fact that it was my longest run in a while.</p>
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Cool! That is a pretty fast mile for someone who has not ran for 12 years!</p>
<p>Calorie calculators on your typical gym exercise machines are usually inaccurate and are best used only as a relative measure of the amount of work done during a workout, not an actual measure of calories burned. Even the best of them only allow you to input age and weight and then calculate an assumed max h.r. factored into the algorithm that uses h.r., speed, duration and weight. They don’t take into account actual max h.r. for the individual, resting h.r., vo2 max h.r. nor the individual’s fitness level. I had an older Garmin Edge 750 bike GPS computer that was more akin to the typical club calorie computer (although I could put in actual max h.r.) and when I upgraded to a newe Garmin 800 that permits entry of the additional h.r. metrics and fitness history, the calorie calculations changed significantly (lower) for the same workouts.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is losing nicely and feeling really good on a diet delivery system called “Bistro MD”. She says it’s really opened her eyes to carb/protein balance and serving size. I was with her when she had one of the lunches and it looked honestly very tasty – grilled shrimp, rice, veggies.</p>
<p>Am thinking of getting this for my DH who has about 15 pounds to lose to get to his healthy weight. Unfortunately he travels a lot and I don’t know how he’d tote around the meals.</p>
<p>Any opinions on a wool running shirt? There’s one of these at a local Marshalls for $30 which sounds like a lot for a running shirt but retail is $85. Would something like this be scratchy? Sounds like this would make for a nice baselayer for hiking too.</p>
<p>I think that I’m going to go over and buy it and see if I like it. We haven’t had any truly cold weather up here in NH yet and I might as well be prepared. BTW, I mean low single-digits to negative temps. I think that we’ve already been in the teens.</p>
I might even take up running…</p>
I don’t like the pounding the body takes when running.</p>