Gym is Open (Thursday 1/3)

Diana, just curious as to what speed/incline you use when you do your treadmill exercise?   Now that it's cold in CO, sitting in the sauna actually sounds relaxing! Kix

Hi Kix, Well I was doing an incline of 15 a few weeks ago. Now I've got to build myself back up. I did 9 the last two days. My speed is 3.4.  Have a good weekend. Diana

I went to the rec center today -- not my usual rec center, it's the one with the warm water pool.  I happened to be on that end of town and the parking lot looked relatively empty.   I did 20 minutes on the inline skating machine (the machine was wonky and rocked back and forth while I skated -- it felt like I was skating on the deck of the Titanic).  I did 15 minutes on the treadmill, 6 of those minutes at a 7% incline.  I also did a bunch of the weight machines, but I won't list them all here.  I was there a little over an hour, and while I'm sore, I didn't resent it as much as I did yesterday.  I had to really focus on my music in order to get past the "I don't wanna exercise today" head game. Kix PS:  Does anyone have a ballpark figure as to how many calories we burn doing the weight machines?  I don't trust Calorie King's listing.

Hi, Kix.  I wore my heart rate monitor a couple times while I was lifting and it showed that I burned about 225 calories in an hour.  Which is a lot less than calorieking.com says I burned!   Kellie

Kellie, I've been thinking about investing in a heart rate monitor.  Do you have a recommendation? Do you like the one you currently use?  Is it a wrist monitor? Calorie King really exaggerates.  I jot down the calories that the treadmill and inline machine say I burned, then input them into Calorie King, but it looks like I barely exercise because I have to cut the times down significantly to match up with CK's calorie count.  ARGH! Nosy Kix

Hi Kix,

Yesterday, I taught a 60 minute Aquafit class, and then walked around the San Diego Wild Animal Park for several hours with my sister in law and neices. 

 

Since one of my goals this year is to be less envious of others, I will not be envious that you spent the day in San Diego where the weather is always lovely! Kix (tired of Denver weather -- we need sun!)

We will be making up for it for the next several days.  We are expecting lots of rain here for the next 5 days.  It was nice there yesterday - cool and overcast, but not cold, no rain/wind, etc.  Good day for walking around.