Climbing for eggheads

[redhawk]

I never heard KISS rendered that way "keep it spiritual son" , that made the thread for me. And .... snow.....

"sister" fits just as well.

[Little Rickie]

This morning I averaged 9 calories per minute for 30 min but at my peak of 4 mpr @ 8 degrees I was hitting 16 cals per min. Now I just have to get that up to an hour.

[Grayelve]

Nice read ... Part of my 10 year ongoing cardio rehab has been the gym when not in the woods somewhere or on the water. I am partial to the elliptical but all have their own personalities/calibrations so they kinda lie to you or something like that. So for me at 60 and 200' running over a couple hills (my favorite) and taking about 40 to 45 minutes with ticker at 125-135 will give me a burn of about 10 calories a minute (of course this depends on the particular machine your on) which is affected by the tempo of Dave Mathews in my ears and what that idiot is doing in the mirror. I never heard KISS rendered that way "keep it spiritual son" , that made the thread for me. And .... snow.....

[redhawk]

I do research in laser eye surgery. Is that a real enough? How about if I operate on your eyes ?

Doesn't "research" mean "Look Again"?

[starbaby]

physicist Biologist geek you all need real jobs

I do research in laser eye surgery. Is that a real enough? How about if I operate on your eyes ?

[Little Rickie]

What happened to the "Senior Resident Curmudgeon" post?

[Little Rickie]

Personally I get a "better" workout when I use the elliptical machine at the gym ... you can change the resistance to meet your needs, choose various programs (hills, random, etc.), as well as the time. And you can "pedal backwards", something you can't do on the treadmill (unless you're extremely talented), and that works a different set of leg muscles. I typically burn far more calories on the elliptical than on the treadmill (regardless of the slope of the treadmill) in an equal amount of time.

My wife swears by the elliptical. I haven't tried one yet but when I do I'll have my HRM on and will gather my stats. I'm talking about getting an accurate indication of how hard I'm exercising & the HRM is the best way of doing that.

The machines are nice but the real calorie burn on the trail with some weight on your back is way big and for real. It's the best.

PS. I weigh 155 lbs (I lost 60 lbs these past two years).

physicist Biologist geek you all need real jobs

[kwc]

Personally I get a "better" workout when I use the elliptical machine at the gym ... you can change the resistance to meet your needs, choose various programs (hills, random, etc.), as well as the time. And you can "pedal backwards", something you can't do on the treadmill (unless you're extremely talented), and that works a different set of leg muscles. I typically burn far more calories on the elliptical than on the treadmill (regardless of the slope of the treadmill) in an equal amount of time.

[starbaby]

Biologist !? You mean..

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species...

[Hobbitling]

dude, you are a geek!

Now we biologists on the other hand...

[starbaby]

oh well, I'm a physicist by profession. I cant' live without thinking about numbers, graphs, data. If I didn't do these kind of things, I would shrivel up into a singularity and implode upon myself into nothingness in a flash of energy.

[redhawk]

I figured out scientifically that if I put one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to where I want to go...

Geez, I go to the woods to get away from all the calculating and stuff.

K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid), or "Keep It Spiritual Son"

[starbaby]

I couldn't figure out how to change the weight setting that the machine was displaying. But your right, you could get the answer by changing the weight setting on the machine.

PS. I weigh 155 lbs (I lost 60 lbs these past two years).

[Little Rickie]

And if your carrying a pack, I would figure things this way (without looking it up), if you weigh 150, and your pack is 50 lbs, then you scale my estimate by: 200 / 150 or, mulitply the value estimated above by 1.33.

SB[/QUOTE]

I would press a few buttons on HRM and increase my weigh by 50lbs for the duration of the exercise session, save the stats and then change my weight back to my original setting when I'm done. Your numbers seem a little low but I don't weigh 150 lbs either.

[starbaby]

is that on top of the 1800-2000 calories we burn anyway in a day? it must be. Plus if you are carrying a pack, you can probably burn even more calories.

Let me think about this... All my computations are based on the readout of the treadmill. I assumed that if you set the speed to zero on the treadmill, the "calories burned" would go to zero...not to the 50 cal per hour you burn standing around. So I would have to say that the calories predicted from my formula are additional to your normal-baseline calories consumed. So add them on top to the 1800 calories you need per day.

And if your carrying a pack, I would figure things this way (without looking it up), if you weigh 150, and your pack is 50 lbs, then you scale my estimate by: 200 / 150 or, mulitply the value estimated above by 1.33.

SB