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| Fitness | Logging Strength Training..does this sound reasonable? | Aug 26 2008 18:34 (UTC) |
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| I think if you use the "weight lifting" activities on CC, you should log the total amount of time you spent, including rests between sets, adjusting weights, and such. I believe that is already figured into the numbers and that's why they seem low. I'd log 20 minutes of cardio and an hour on the machines as, well, 20 minutes of cardio and an hour of weight lifting, not as 65 minutes of circuit training. If you want more accuracy than that, the best advice I can give you is to splurge on a HRM. | |||
| Fitness | Girl at my Gym With Over Exercise Disorder | Aug 06 2008 16:35 (UTC) |
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Original Post by melkor: There's no difference in the fat loss, but there's a world of difference in overall results. Not only do you get the health and fitness benefits to your cardiovascular system, you also get to enjoy the food you ate if you create the deficit by cardio as opposed to not eating. Since you aren't eating so much less, it can be easier to stick with the plan. You also get the benefits of whatever vitamins and minerals are in that food. This can be very important if we're talking about the difference between eating 1500 calories and doing 500 calories worth of cardio, or only eating 1000 calories. |
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| Fitness | Wii Fit? | Aug 05 2008 14:50 (UTC) |
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| We recently got Wii Fit and I think it's great, but it's not a 100% solution. Some of the strength exercises, like the jackknife and the pushup, are fine, but the tricep extension? That's pointless without adding some weight (I predict an adjustable dumbbell set with the ability to attach a Wii Remote and/or Nunchuck in the accessory market soon).
I mainly am using it for weighing in in the morning and doing some yoga to help wake up. The step, the rhythm boxing, and hula hoop are okay for light aerobic exercise, but if I really want to burn some calories it's time to eject the Wii Fit disc and put DDR in there. |
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| Fitness | how wrong is the treadmill | Jun 06 2008 13:51 (UTC) |
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| 15 incline is pretty steep. CC's numbers might not be based on a hill that steep. I have a HRM, and I've found that generally the equipment in our gym is a lot closer to the HRM's numbers than CC is. Perhaps until you know for sure, though, you should split the difference and call it 210. | |||
| Motivation | spiritual agnostics/atheists | Oct 08 2007 15:41 (UTC) |
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| I liked TGD, but it's not the best thing Dawkins has written.
The thing about snacking and TV is that your brain isn't working as hard while watching TV. It's as if you're just sitting around doing nothing, and you get the urge to eat to have something to do. Reading is different - it's more, engaging I guess is the word. Also, you don't want to get Cheetos stains on the pages! |
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| Fitness | CC Virtual 5k/10k - Come Post Your RESULTS! | Sep 28 2007 16:26 (UTC) |
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| BTW, are we going to have another race for the winter solstice? | |||
| Fitness | CC Virtual 5k/10k - Come Post Your RESULTS! | Sep 28 2007 16:24 (UTC) |
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| Good to see I'm not the only one who kind of missed it. Since I've been sick for over six weeks, I've had to get back into running shape. On 9/25 I ran 3.67 miles in 50:39, that's a 42:55 5k. :( | |||
| Fitness | Learn to Run - Who wants to do this with me?? | Aug 13 2007 17:57 (UTC) |
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| Hi folks, today makes two weeks since my last run, or exercise of any kind, and of course I've been following the old advice to "feed a cold", so I'm scared even to get on a scale now. I MIGHT go to the gym tonight, but if I do I'll have to take it pretty easy. I'm hoping that maybe it will feel so much like starting over that I'll get more motivated to stay on track and log everything now!
zarelha, thanks for the thoughts. nightc1, sorry I missed the race... any chance you might participate in the Race for the Cure in B'ham in October? I hope you haven't been running outside in this weather! |
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| Fitness | Learn to Run - Who wants to do this with me?? | Aug 03 2007 14:21 (UTC) |
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| nightc1 - I've been a little under the weather the past couple days. I'm debating whether or not to go tomorrow. I'm leaning toward doing it, but I'm probably going to be taking it slowly. | |||
| Fitness | numb toes while running | Jul 31 2007 14:35 (UTC) |
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| Here's a little trick... put your running shoe on, unlace it about halfway (if your laces go through the tongue, pull them out to right below the tongue) and pull the laces not-quite-tight, so your toes have a little room to swell. Now wrap the laces around each other three times. Finish lacing and pull tight - now you have room for the toes, but your shoe is tight around the ankle and your heel won't slip around.
If you can't make room for the toes by leaving the laces a bit loose in the bottom, get bigger shoes. The lacing trick should still allow you to get a good fit up top. |
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| Fitness | Road Runners or Happy Hamster? | Jul 31 2007 14:31 (UTC) |
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| Ditto to teenwolf. I can go for up to five miles on a track, or three to four miles on pavement, without aching like I do after just two miles on a treadmill. I'll be glad when the cooler weather comes so I can run outside more. | |||
| Fitness | Heart Rate Monitors and % Fat Burned? | Jul 31 2007 14:20 (UTC) |
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| Well, the more you exert yourself, the less percentage of your calories burned will be fat. But, you'll burn more overall calories by working harder. For example, if you burn 100 calories and 60% of it is fat, or if you burn 200 calories and only 30% is fat, you will have burned the same amount of fat. Also, by burning more calories overall, you will have less extra calories floating around to be stored as fat later.
Downsides to the harder workout? Well, your body will probably burn a bit of muscle tissue when you get really intense, so if you do that you also need to do strength training and get plenty of protein to maintain muscle mass. Depending on what kind of cardio you do, you may have an increased risk of injury while working harder. That's why I'm not a big fan of telling people to stay in the "fat burning" zone. Those higher zones will burn as much (or more) fat in the long run. I think a variety of different workouts is probably the way to go. If you hit 90% HRmax a couple times per week, you'll be grateful for that easy 70% workout when it comes around! |
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| Fitness | Mission: Run Around the World | Jul 31 2007 14:08 (UTC) |
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| pandajenn, you won't have me picking on you, I'll only be doing about 10 miles/week to start. I'll be increasing a little at a time, though, to get ready for the virtual 10k in September, of course. | |||
| Fitness | Learn to Run - Who wants to do this with me?? | Jul 31 2007 14:00 (UTC) |
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| Thanks, inci_vinci. I ran about three quality miles yesterday afternoon, and I'm gonna run probably an easy 5 miles Wed. morning and then rest up for the 5K. Then the following week I'll have to start upping the distance to get ready for the virtual 10K in September, wheeeee!!
According to my log, I've run 30 miles in July - it would have been more if it weren't for all the other stuff going on. I'll probably get 40 in in August - once my little girl starts riding the bus to kindergarten, I'll have many more mornings free. I still can't quite believe I'm doing this... :) |
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| Motivation | spiritual agnostics/atheists | Jul 27 2007 15:09 (UTC) |
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| geez, I got so busy with my 'natural' pet peeve that I forgot to address this: "Eating 5 meals a day I only consume about 1200-1400 calories/day and burn 1700... but I'm gaining anyway."
If you're gaining only water weight, that's possible, but that could only last for a couple days and account for a few pounds. If you are putting on fat, then you are either eating more than you think or burning less calories than you think. It is impossible for your body to build fat if you have a calorie deficit. Most likely, you're overestimating your calorie expenditure. A bunch of the activities listed on Calorie Count have calorie figures attached to them which are highly unrealistic, so be careful. Also, at only 1200-1400 calories input, you're likely to have put your body in conservation mode, in which case you aren't burning as many calories as you think during your normal daily activities either. |
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| Motivation | spiritual agnostics/atheists | Jul 27 2007 15:00 (UTC) |
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| lizbeyond, you said: "hydrogenated oil is not natural.. I don't eat it. High fructose corn syrup is not natural, I don't eat it... etc."
Now, neither of those things are particularly good for us, partially because our bodies are not adapted to eating them. We did not evolve with these things in our environment. But, it has nothing to do with them not being 'natural'. Monkey poop is natural, cobra venom is natural, bat urine is natural. None of these are recommended parts of a balanced diet either. Besides, if you really want to get technical, HFCS and hydrogenated oils are 'natural', because they are products of human beings, who are natural animals. They are produced in factories which we build out of pieces of our natural environment. They're at least every bit as natural as a beaver dam. Or, to put it yet another way, the only things that can truly be said to not be natural are things that are supernatural - and those don't actually exist. :) |
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| Fitness | Mission: Run Around the World | Jul 27 2007 14:41 (UTC) |
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| Fitness | CC Virtual 5k/10k - Come Post Your RESULTS! | Jul 23 2007 14:51 (UTC) |
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| I got in 5 miles today, so I should have no problem being able to do 10K. I'm doing a 5K in two weeks, though, so I'm not going to be upping my mileage any more until after that. That still gives me seven weeks to train for the virtual 10K, then three weeks after that is the Race for the Cure 5K.
If someone had told me back in January that I would run three 5Ks and a 10K between July 4th and Halloween... (insert witty phrase here). |
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| Fitness | I just have to say... (Nike+iPod) | Jul 18 2007 19:48 (UTC) |
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| You don't have to get special shoes - you can buy little pouches from a number of different manufacturers that will attach to the laces of any other brand of shoe and hold the sensor.
It's not terribly accurate, being really a glorified pedometer, but if you calibrate it at the same pace you typically run it's good enough. |
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| Fitness | CC Virtual 5k/10k - Come Post Your RESULTS! | Jul 18 2007 19:32 (UTC) |
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| Ok, I feel like a total schlemiel sitting there by myself in the "undecided" bucket. Put me down for 10k. | |||
| Fitness | Learn to Run - Who wants to do this with me?? | Jul 18 2007 19:26 (UTC) |
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| dee - well, I did sort of plod back down the stairs and it took a bit before I was back up to speed running. I wish the stairs had actually gone somewhere so I could have just kept going from the top, but no, they just end halfway up a hill at the edge of a small wooded area.
The Shaven Yak is a character from the Ren & Stimpy cartoon. |
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| Fitness | Learn to Run - Who wants to do this with me?? | Jul 17 2007 12:24 (UTC) |
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| I was going to go out last night for about a two miler, but I went down into another section of our neighborhood, ran up and back down a huge flight of wooden stairs (about the size of bleachers at a big high school or small college football stadium), around two other streets, and back up the "hill of doom" (had to walk about 1/3 of it), and when I got back to the house the iPod said I had 3.11 miles in 38:08. Pretty good I guess, considering the added toughness of stairs and huge hill. I'll start using that course for one of my weekly runs, but I think I'm going to forego the stairs next time and see if that gives me enough extra juice to run all the way up the hill. | |||
| Weight Loss | WW vs. CC...Save Your MONEY | Jul 13 2007 15:16 (UTC) |
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| Basically, 50 calories is 1 point. But each gram of fiber (up to 5g in a serving) reduces the calories by 10, and each gram of fat increases the calories by 4. I don't think there's an actual weight loss reason behind the adjustments, I think they're intended simply to drive the users toward higher fiber and lower fat foods, which will be healthier choices in general. Hopefully that leads to less cravings for fat and sugars when the goal is finally reached and they stop counting points so dilligently.
The formula above may not be exactly what they do - it was reverse-engineered. Somewhere on the web you can probably find their allowed point values, which vary according to your current weight and are intended, I believe, to result in roughly 1.5 pounds/week of weight loss. And with point values printed on nearly all prepackaged foods, it's an ideal system for folks who want to lose weight without doing lots of math. I don't think it's really worth the money they want for it, though. |
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| Fitness | Target Heart Rates | Jul 13 2007 15:02 (UTC) |
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| At 60%, a larger percentage of the calories you burn will be fat. At 80%, a larger percentage will be glycogen and carbs - BUT you will be burning more total calories, so you will probably still be burning a larger quantity of fat than you did at 60%.
Basically, they say that because if your goal is fat loss, you don't NEED to be regularly pushing to 80% or above. If you're trying to improve performance, though, you aren't going to get much benefit plodding around at 60%. If you're doing HIIT, you do want to be getting to around 180 or 185... about 90% or a little over. Basically, your sprint interval should be as hard as you can go - if you don't feel like you HAVE to slow down when you do, it's just interval training, not HIIT. I wouldn't do that more than once or maybe twice a week, by the way... too much risk of overtraining. |
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| Fitness | Walking the same distance in 20 minutes or 30 minutes | Jul 13 2007 14:50 (UTC) |
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| Like pozesara said, you should burn about the same number of calories. But, at the slower pace you'll probably be burning a higher percentage of fat and a lower percentage of carbs / glycogen. Which is likely to be a good thing, if your goal is weight loss. It will also leave you less tired since your blood sugar won't be as depleted.
The drawback (there's always a drawback) is that it's not exercising your heart as much. |
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| Fitness | Heart Rate Monitor | Jul 13 2007 14:46 (UTC) |
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| My wife bought me an F11 for Father's Day and I love it. It gives an accurate calorie burn to put into the activity log here, and all the cardio equipment at the Y works with it, so I can watch my heart rate on the big display on the machine. I think the F11 comes with a better (more comfortable) strap than the F6, and it has the fitness test, for what that's worth. But I think if I had paid for it myself, I would have gotten the F6 and still been pretty happy. | |||
| Fitness | My 5k 'No need for speed' Story | Jul 13 2007 14:36 (UTC) |
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| And go figure... I went to the Y this morning and set a new PR on the 5K - 34:44. I guess I had to take a step back before taking two forward.
Funny, I didn't even intend to run fast, I was just going to do the whole thing at whatever pace I could manage and be done with it. Then about halfway through I realized I was on pace to break 35 minutes. Good thing I looked, otherwise I might have dropped off. |
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| Motivation | spiritual agnostics/atheists | Jul 12 2007 19:32 (UTC) |
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| Ahh, I see I'm not the only nonreligious person going to the YMCA. I guess it's a bit weird being in this place, with a sign on the wall talking about "Judeo-Christian values", running around their track with my iPod blasting out "Judith" by A Perfect Circle. But, it's a better deal than any other nearby gym, and they have a huge plastic dome they put over their pool in the winter so we can swim all year round. | |||
| Fitness | My 5k 'No need for speed' Story | Jul 12 2007 19:04 (UTC) |
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| Hey, panda... I had an interesting experience yesterday afternoon. I decided to ride my bike to the gym, so when I was done I could ride over to a friend's house and pick up our van that they had borrowed while watching our little girl last week. I've done this before, but I didn't take into consideration that I have skipped weight training for the past two weeks for one reason or another.
Basically, when I got on the machines, I found myself all but unable to lift. I only did about half the stations, and sets of 8 where I usually do 12, and had to give up. It was taking so long to recover from each set that I would have been there all night to get finished, and I don't have lights on my bike. So, you're not alone in having run into a wall recently. |
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| Fitness | CC Virtual 5k/10k - Come Post Your RESULTS! | Jul 12 2007 18:55 (UTC) |
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| I can run 4 - 4.5 miles or so now, but I'm also planning to do a 5K on August 3 and again on October 13. I'm leaning toward sticking with the 5K here so as not to kill myself. Then again, maybe the variety of having the longer run in there will be helpful.
Torn, torn like an old sweater.... :) |
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