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If you've read my blog in the last couple of days, you'll know that I got a new Polar FT4 Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) on Sunday. Monday, I couldn't seem to push the buttons correctly to make it work. I'm blaming it on lack of caffeine and sunshine. No one should have to think at 4:30 in the morning!! LOL! 
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GEEMAWEST
10/7/2010 9:02PM
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Silly thing. Is it really worth it? Just sayin'. 
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AUNTIEANNE22
10/6/2010 10:58PM
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If you burned 155 calories in 2 seconds we all want your exercise routine. What are you doing to burn 370 calories in 45 minutes? Sounds like maybe an elliptical. You can really burn a lot of calories quickly on them. That is my choice for next month. By then I should have built up my stamina enough. I tried the first day at the gym and lasted 10 minutes. I was up to 45 on my home elliptical, but that was before my surgery. My house is just too hot for doing it.
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RWETHAIRYET
10/6/2010 5:03PM
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Hahahahahahaha...I just love it! I'm glad I'm not the only one who stumbles with the little buttons and little dials, and is it on or is it paused and oops did I just clear the last workout that I was half way through....and oh, I can't read the dial with my glasses on (makes me wonder what good the bifocals are, since there are a lot of things I have to take the glasses off for and put right under my nose...but I digress. Stick with it. I bet it all works out in the end. Report Inappropriate Comment |
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LEFTSOX
10/6/2010 12:26PM
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I wish my 45 min workout burned 330+ calories!!! Mine only burns about 270.....  I think it's time to up my effort a little! Report Inappropriate Comment |
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ELYMWX
10/6/2010 12:06PM
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BKNOCK
10/6/2010 11:37AM
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Dagnabbing? I love your language! You will make it work, you are a smart cookie!
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STEELKICKIN
10/6/2010 11:33AM
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I saw your blog title and I knew that you were being stumped by the HRM again. I don't anything about them but keep working with it. If anyone can figure it out, it will be you. I'd get one but I'd probably have it flung into the middle of the highway in two hours flat. But kudos to you on this decision, Barb. You're making some great changes and you're going to be a success at this just like you are at everything else! OOOO-RAH!! Report Inappropriate Comment |
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JOHNTJ1
10/6/2010 11:07AM
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"Dagnabbit?" LOL I had the same problem when I got mine back in June. I thought maybe it came with a grad student from MIT, in order to get it to work. Like you, eventually I figured it out Report Inappropriate Comment |
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DAYHIKER
10/6/2010 6:27AM
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All new gadgets seem to make me a little crazy at first figuring them out then they become second nature. Me likem gadgets too!! So off I go with my iPhone, HRM, and a pedometer... 
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LMB100
10/6/2010 4:47AM
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Good for you for stepping it up! You're ahead of me, I'm just starting to get back to a weight circuit after MANY years away. And speaking of bad technology, just for giggles I got on the scale at the gym and it weighed me 16 lbs heavier than 2 hours earlier at home. (Did I say "giggles?" I wasn't actually giggling  ) Now 5 lbs I could see. But 16? Then I was told it isn't accurate and hadn't been calibrated for several days. Gee.... ya think???  I guess that goes to show you, if you don't own it, don't trust it.
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SHUNTZINGER
10/6/2010 12:10AM
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I don't know anything about your exercise experience or history but I always advise to make sure you have strength training in the mix too. If you don't, be sure to add it in. It'll help burn a few extra calories too. Cardio is not the end all be all. Good job commiting to a HRMonitor! Report Inappropriate Comment |
If you read my blog yesterday, you know that I got a new HRM. And, as you probably already know, I am not a morning exercising kind of person. I don't get up in the morning to exercise unless I know my friend will be at the gym to greet me. Well, I knew for a fact that my friend wouldn't be there (hurt her knee), but I got up anyway. AND I went!
Why? Because I had a new toy, of course! LOL! I reread the directions to make sure I knew what buttons to push and when. I got the chest strap wet and put it on (warm water cools VERY fast!). I strapped on the wrist unit and made sure I had a heart beat. It was a little elevated - 82 - but probably just because I was giddy with excitement.
Got to the gym, set up my book, iPod and set all the settings on the machine. Then I pushed start on my HRM. Forty-five minutes later, I reached down to stop the HRM and ... nothing? What the ??? I got so caught up in trying to figure out what had happened that I didn't even get the numbers off the machine! Dagnabit!
I still needed to stretch, so I restarted it (or started it for the first time!). When I did that, I realized that I was supposed to push the button twice. DOH!!! THAT time it worked exactly as it was supposed to! So I still don't know how my actual calorie burn compares to what the machine has been saying. I plan to have that answer tomorrow.
Wish me luck. Apparently, I'll need it! BTW...did I mention that I am NOT a morning person! LOL!
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SUZYMOBILE
10/6/2010 7:08AM
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I hate to tell you how long it took me to figure out how to get the battery into my pedometer!
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SANDIE4HLTH
10/5/2010 11:54PM
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I LOVE new gadgets but they are particularly difficult in the A.M. for us non-morning folks. I empathize! I'm sure you'll do just fine the next time you use it.
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AUNTIEANNE22
10/5/2010 10:45PM
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Not only are you not a morning person, but also not much of a tech geek either. Hey, as someone else pointed out, now you have a reason to get up early again tomorrow. Let us know how you make out.
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STEVENGO2
10/5/2010 8:32PM
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Looks like you are trying to push too many buttons, especially too early in the morning for you!
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BETHGILLIGAN
10/5/2010 8:14PM
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Funny!!! Hope you have better luck tomorrow!!
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RWETHAIRYET
10/5/2010 7:51PM
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heehee, been there a few times myself....I just know those were my best "burn" days ever, haha!
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BKNOCK
10/5/2010 7:33PM
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You crack me up! Now you have a new toy to try tomorrow, again! LOL!
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NEWNAC304
10/5/2010 4:32PM
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Maybe you should have had some coffee before you went to the gym?
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CARLANNIE
10/5/2010 8:09AM
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Wow - I hope your little exploit didn't diminish your giddiness. Giddiness must burn a ton of calories!
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JEWELS571
10/5/2010 12:04AM
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hahahha love it! You will get the hang of it!
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MUSIC66
10/4/2010 11:35PM
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yes you did say that lol.
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SPARKGIRL285
10/4/2010 11:30PM
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Congrats on your new HRM, I couldn't help but laugh because i'm not a morning person either and there has been quite a few times I forgot to press the start button. Although I'm not laughing then because it is frustrating.
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STEELKICKIN
10/4/2010 11:27PM
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What's the matter with you? Are you not a morning person or something?? LOL! You got it now....let us know how it goes!!!
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