Heart Rate Monitor is here
My Heart Rate Monitor arrived on Saturday, I thinks I like it.
The first time that I used it on Saturday I was not impressed and thought it was going to have to go back, it was jumping all over the place…60, 140, 62, 145, 190, 59…etc. And I did nooooot like the read out at the end of it, it had me as having burned 100 calories less than the read out on my elliptical - that’s pretty huge for a 40 minute workout - and it said my average heart rate was 112, but I know from having watched it that it was at around 140 for most of the time, all that jumping obviously caused the wonky reading.
I tried again with it last night and it functioned much better, rather than having it on my wrist I just put it on my elliptical….so that it wasn’t physically moving with my arm. Got much better results, didn’t notice it jumping - average 135 and only 30 calories less than the read out on my elliptical.
Both of those were with my resting heart rate set at 65 though, I am not sure how accurate that is, I measured it without reading the instructions…now that I have read them it says you should measure it when you first get up in the mornings, so I did that this morning and it came back as 51 - that seems rather low to me, given the average is 60 - 80 so I am not sure that’s right either, I will test it more over the coming days and try work it out.
I need to do some serious reading about other things also, I have no idea to work out what a good heart rate target is for me - so far I have only used it to measure my rate, I have no got into setting zones, tiz (?) and all the other fancy stuff.
But overall, I like it and I think it’s going to be useful once I fully understand how to use it.
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Congrats for doing so well in the past 14 months.
The main reason I don’t like the word “diet” is because its restricting. You deny yourself and when you do eat it, you go crazy making up for lost time. I live by the motto “Don’t do anything to lose weight that you’re not willing to do for the rest of your life.” I have pizza maybe once a week or two. I’ve managed to wean myself from the chocolate, I just don’t have to have it a lot anymore.
Just get back on track and find a way to fit the foods you love into your healthy lifestyle. Then you won’t go buck wild when you do have them.
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