<p>Anyone see the article in Sunday NYT Magazine about calculating your “fitness” age?
Here is the site: [Fitness</a> calculator - CERG - NTNU](<a href=“http://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/vo2max]Fitness”>Fitness calculator - CERG - NTNU)</p>
<p>3.75 mi treadmill run</p>
<p>What an inspirational lady (and a sad story from NYC marathon):</p>
<p>[Joy</a> Johnson, New York City Marathon’s oldest female competitor, dies the next day | GrindTV.com](<a href=“http://www.grindtv.com/lifestyle/culture/post/joy-johnson-new-york-city-marathons-oldest-female-competitor-dies-the-next-day/]Joy”>http://www.grindtv.com/lifestyle/culture/post/joy-johnson-new-york-city-marathons-oldest-female-competitor-dies-the-next-day/)</p>
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<p>Yoga class (75 minutes) and 2.0 mile walk (went to the high school track and walked as fast as I could–finished 2 miles in 25:45).</p>
<p>That’s some fast walking. Nice work, Bromfield!</p>
<p>3.5 dreadmill miles in a very hot gym! Time went quickly as a friend was running next me. It was nice to see her! I hope to go back on the thread and find the beginner core exercise routine. I haven’t done any core activities for quite some time. Bad me! 
Making southwest stuffed peppers for dinner. (Ground turkey, quinoa, black beans, corn and chilies in red pepper with no sugar tomato sauce over top) Need to get moving on my shedding for the wedding!</p>
<p>Just finished my first couple of days of a strength training routine, and my legs are threatening to quit…nothing exotic, but wow do I feel it! I know I am out of shape, but wow…and whoever invented the plank was a genuine sadist! <em>lol</em>. </p>
<p>Weight wise I have plateaued for the moment, down around 20 pounds. I suspect it is just normal fluctuations, a couple of mornings ago I was down 1.5 pounds from where I am now, the next day I was 1 pound more…(I know, I know, the scale should be my enemy…)…it is weird. I think in part my body is probably trying to slow down my metabolism, cause it isn’t because I am eating too much…</p>
<p>Found another great website, besides the precision nutrition folks (great free info, if you ignore the soft sales pitch), I also found the website for me, [Nerd</a> Fitness: Helping You Lose Weight, Get Stronger, Live Better.](<a href=“http://www.nerdfitness.com%5DNerd”>http://www.nerdfitness.com). One of the stories of one of the members is eye opening, girl who was overweight and so forth, did the diet and aerobics thing, got down to 110 pounds, then took up heavy lifting (she is 5’ 4" tall…), can deadlift 315 pounds, and is now around 140 pounds, and has an incredible body. One of the big things I have always feared with lifting is to end up with all the built up muscle, just not my style (prefer toned myself, more like a swimmers physique) and what they are saying is to do that you have to eat special and so forth, and for a woman without doing those kind of things it is next to impossible to bulk up that way,and for a guy like me, it takes a lot of work beyond heavy lifting…ironically, according to the infamous BMI tables, that girl is obese…(so is Lebron James, would love to see some moron GP tell him that…) . </p>
<p>I have become convinced that when it comes to fitness and nutrition, stay away from your local AMA member, they literally are living decades in the past and their training in these things is pathetic…so much of what they claim as gospel, about dietary cholesterol and heart disease, about saturated fat and heart disease, about salt, have either been modified tremendously or been blown totally out of the water in recent years, yet doctors are still telling you that. Then we have the political agenda, that tells us that grains and cereals are at the bottom of the food pyramid, which is also questionable (and is likely more the influence of lobbying by the agricultural interests)…After reading some of the studies cited on precision nutrition, I realize just how much I don’t know…</p>
<p>Tried the fitness calculator. The categories didn’t quite fit my exercise as I don’t exercise over 30 minutes every time, nor under 30 minutes every time. And, I exercise harder than “a little heavy breathing and sweaty”, but you can’t “go all out” for 60 minute strength training workouts. Anyway, I tried it two different ways. One said I had a fitness age of 25. The other said 37. I’ll take either one, although neither is really true.</p>
<p>The calculator gave me good numbers because I exercise “nearly every day” and because I put my resting heart rate as 50.</p>
<p>musicprnt:</p>
<p>It is truly unfortunate that steroid-riddled bodybuilders set the popular notion of strength training. Nothing could be farther from the results that 99% of are going to see. Without a genetic predisposition towards easy muscle gain (mesomorph) or anabolic steroids, it’s nearly impossible for men to add that kind of muscle without just crazy weight lifting. Even more unusual for women. And, the thing is, you can always look in the mirror and scale back at any time. Most of us should be so lucky to have the problem of getting too muscular. For the vast majority of us, any muscle we gain is going to be a big plus, both in terms of fitness/health and appearance.</p>
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<p>I agreee. I wouldn’t turn to an MD for nutrition/fitness advice. In fairness they really aren’t trained in it at all. Basically nothing. So they get the same “conventional wisdom” from the public health community that the rest of us get and it would be generous to say that this advice is worthless. The sad thing is that they have got everyone fighting the wrong nutritional bogeyman, which in turn, assists the food industry in marketing faux-healthy junk food. I think most doctors see so little success and so much failure among their patients trying to lose weight that the whole discussion is just one big demoralizing nightmare. They give advice; it never works. How awful is that, scolding patients to eat less and exercise more…</p>
<p>I would agree that [Precision</a> Nutrition](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/]Precision”>http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/) is one of the better sources of information out there.</p>
<p>Trying to work my way through this little quasi-flu bug. Don’t really feel bad, but not full speed either. Did my usual basement workout, but didn’t go quite as heavy as I could.</p>
<p>Tabata TRX plank
Stabilty ball deadbugs
Stability ball side toe touches</p>
<p>DB snatch
Box jumps</p>
<p>DB front squat (2 x 30 lb)
3-pt row (50 lb)</p>
<p>Single leg deadlift (50 lb DB)
TRX spiderman push ups</p>
<p>Tried the fitness calculator; evidently I too am 25. Why do they ask for waist measurement and how does it factor, I wonder? </p>
<p>I am getting lots of exercise. Sprinting for the puppy, sprinting for the paper towels, sprinting for the door while carrying the puppy…sequence may vary. 5 miles on the treadmill.</p>
<p>Wow I-dad and sabaray - I feel positively ancient at a “fitness age” of 32!</p>
<p>I was under 20. Uh, no…</p>
<p>This will make it very hard to eat Nutella:</p>
<p>[Making</a> Homemade Nutella (Sorta) - YouTube](<a href=“Making Homemade Nutella (Sorta) - YouTube”>Making Homemade Nutella (Sorta) - YouTube)</p>
<p>LOL. I was actually at 28. I think I’m the only one “older” than actual age…</p>
<p>Heh, heh…</p>
<p>We’ll have to start calling you Grandpa Hops_Scout… :)</p>
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<p>Dang, MOWC. I think you just got “carded” by the fitness calculator!</p>
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<p>It is a proxy for body fat and its health effects (although it looks like they are not comparing it with your height).</p>
<p>Coming down cats and dogs out there. Looks to be a good day for a home workout.</p>
<p>That calculator is interesting.</p>
<p>set /nerd=on</p>
<p>If you dig through the code, for males the formula is</p>
<p>vo2max = 100.27 + frequency<em>duration</em>difficulty<em>0.226 - age</em>0.296 - waist<em>0.37 - pulse</em>0.155</p>
<p>age = 160.7 - 2.513*vo2max</p>
<p>where:</p>
<p>frequency is 0,1,2, or 3 depending if you select the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th option
duration is 1 or 1.5
difficulty is 1, 5 or 10</p>
<p>Some things fall out of this formula:</p>
<p>Every cm your waist drops lowers your age by .93 years. Lowering your resting pulse by 3 lowers your age by 1.2 years.</p>
<p>The exercise contribution to v02max is a range from 0 to 10… this seems pretty small.</p>
<p>“Fitness age” is a proxy of vo2max… this doesn’t seem logical. There is more to age than cardiovascular fitness.</p>
<p>The coefficients are oddly precise… and they are quite a bit different for women:</p>
<p>vo2max = 74.736 + frequency<em>duration</em>difficulty<em>0.198 - age</em>0.247 - waist<em>0.258 - pulse</em>0.114</p>
<p>age = 155.8 - 3.049*vo2max</p>
<p>set /nerd=off</p>
<p>Didn’t want to get out in the dark this morning in Charleston after a big, late dinner at an incredible restaurant last night. Plus, it us warm and humid and I didn’t pack summer running stuff. I did check the forecast repeatedly, but it got warmer than predicted. That said, I had a terrific 5 mile run along the waterfront and past gorgeous homes in this beautiful city. I was asked to run with some others who are at this conference, but I want to run slowly and alone right now, so I dodged it. I feel like I’m in a Pat Conroy Novell- albeit one with a lot of lawyers!</p>
<p>This is a new state for me to run in. SC now checked off. I’m missing both Dakotas, Nebraska, Delaware and maybe Idaho and a couple others.</p>