July 4 challenges

**isitgoneyet** · 06-18-2006, 08:44 PM

Ok- since I am doing this one late- and after I failed at the excersize for the father's day...here is my goal for July 4th...which makes it a 2 week goal....
Excersize at least 5 days a week first thing in the morning for at least 30 min!

**kimberpc** · 06-18-2006, 11:13 PM

Okie dokie this one is a little different than our usual set up... lol So I'm starting tomorrow since the Father's Day Challenge just ended today. 2 week challenge for me... so 3 pounds to lose and 600 minutes of exercise!

**isitgoneyet** · 06-19-2006, 01:13 PM

This am- amid lots of things that kept trying to stop me (one being that my mp3 player is not working!!!! arghhhh) I did my 30 min of excersize. 1 day down, 9 more to go for goal!
Ann

Cherryjubliee · 06-20-2006, 03:51 PM

Starting a little late, today i am 247 and worked out for 30 minutes yesterday (yesterday was day 1 in the gym). 15 days, I would like to lose 5 pounds and increase my M - Thru. work out to 45 minutes.

**Shannie72** · 06-21-2006, 06:19 PM

I want in on this one too. I will lose 2 pounds and exercise for 300 minutes by July 4th. This is a 2 week challenge for me since I'm starting the day after Father's Day. Good luck to all!!!!

**yesimln** · 06-22-2006, 04:41 AM

I posted this in my journal but I'm in too. I'm pledging 10000 calories by July 4th. I started tonight - 8900 to go. God that sounds like a lot.

Ellen

**flgirlie73** · 06-22-2006, 12:07 PM

Ellen do you use a heartrate monitor to track the calories you burn or do you rely on the display on gym equipment?
Before I broke my elliptical (I used it to DEATH lol) I only relied on the machine readout to track my calories and heartrate - you know all that good stuff the machine did. Then I was reading an article - somewhere - online I'm sure (so you know it must be true lol) that using a heartrate monitor is a more precise way of tracking your calories burned and making sure you stay in that target heart rate.
I was just wondering what method you use to track yours.
I like that your challenge is calories burned....I think I will add that to mine too!

**yesimln** · 06-22-2006, 04:02 PM

I use a heartrate monitor, religiously. Yesterday I did the crossramp at the gym (an ellyptical machine of sorts) and the display said I burned 450 calories... the heartrate monitor said I burned 320. Usually they are closer than that (particularly since the machine at the gym reads my heart rate monitor directly). But alas not yesterday. I got the monitor on the advice of the trainers at the gym and of a close friend who raved about it. And I'm a total convert to it. What I like is this: it's calibrated to me and only to me... my age/weight/fitness level in general... on the machine it's a general indication of what people my size/age should be able to do. But I'm apparently a helluva lot fitter than most 40 year-olds weighing 230 pounds or so. The other issue at the gym is that I don't always use the same machine and each of those can give different readouts. I know of one ellyptical machine just in terms of mileage that gives me almost double the distance of the others... just one of those things. Last but not least, I love taking classes and this was the only way to know how I was really doing in them was to have the monitor. At the end of the day, I guess it comes down to that my inner control freak prefers to have the information with me, on me, for just me. LOL

BTW mine is a Polar, the lowest version they have F4. It's plenty for me and I love it. It rocks.

Ellen