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From: Tall Guy on 2 Mar 2007 01:33
So after about a solid year of a highly sedentary lifestyle and a steady
diet of take out food. I've gotten my sorry butt into a gym in a desperate
effort to get fit and hopefully stay that way. I'm averaging 5 days a week
in the gym alternating between cardio and strength training and after my
first month I'm seeing great results in both strength gains and improved
cardio endurance.

I've taken to wearing a telemetry strap during cardio training to transmit
heart rate data to the Life Fitness Elliptical Cross-Training machines.
I've been consistently training with a steady state target heart rate of 160
bpm using the machine's "cardio" program. This is around the maximum target
for someone of my age (33). I have been able to gradually increase my time
on the machine to the max it allows (60-66 minutes). As I've progressed,
I'm finding the machine has increased its resistance to about 3 out of 7
lights and I'm usually generating over 200 watts. Here is what is kinda
blowing my mind. By the time I'm done it says I've used over 1200 calories!
Is this for real? I'm inclined to believe it is a miscalculation. If it is
how much of an adjustment should I be making to the output. FYI I'm 6'9"
(yes I really am that tall) and weigh around 270 lbs.



From: Tall Guy on 2 Mar 2007 11:26
Disregard. I just read the "How Accurate Are Those Monitors, Anyway?" post
from exactly one month ago. Guess it answers my questions kinda. Didn't
mean to beat the dead horse.


From: Bert Hyman on 2 Mar 2007 19:03
In news:F6qdnd_5_97MwHXYnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d(a)comcast.com "Tall Guy"
<real_tall_guy(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> Didn't mean to beat the dead horse.
>

But, how many calories per hour from beating a dead horse?

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert(a)iphouse.com
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