For anyone who has run any distance of significance you know about gas problems. Running makes a person toot. Another reason to dislike running on a treadmill is that there's people within arms reach of me. Out on the open road I feel fine being, uh, natural. I can even let one slip when I'm on the track.
When there's super-grandpas to the left of me and severly scented Susies to the right, I must suffer gastral pain. Combine that with my fear of falling and I'm not that happy about running on a machine.
On the plus side, I did learn my average heart rate was 166 and I supposedly burned 546 calories during my 45 minute run. That's a small consollation considering all the other grief I had to endure.
I couldn't set the time higher than 30 minutes. My wife tells me that's because people are usually waiting to use the machines. And people think I'm crazy for running in sub-zero weather!
There's all these arbitrary numbers to set before running. What does an elevation of 2.5 mean? How about a speed of 6.6? Give me some hills and let me run as fast as I can up them and tell me when it's been 45 minutes!
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Ha! It's like that with yoga too I'm told. I think the grnadpas would be cool with it but the Susies...yeah.. I can see why you hate it.
At my old gym they told me that most machine calculators are set to a standard weight (150 often) and the calorie burn is calculated from that.
So I did some checking into that. And this site:
http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm
does a better job at getting to the actual calorie burn for a specific weight and duration for several activities. (Sorry that I do not know the html to link it pretty.)
It is unfortunate that you have to resort to the machine, but at least your wife and child can rest easier knowing you will not become a human popsicle!
Way to go man. That's dedication!
Thanks boo. I don't really care how many calories I burn. When I need to buy new pants I'll know I'm going somewhere. The only numbers I'm remotely interested in these days are:
20070215
26.2
20070429
The machine is so limiting. I feel boxed in like cattle. I don't watch much television and can't avoid it while on the treadmill.
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