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My doctor for the longest time has told me that my waist-to-hip ratio (WTH) is a good estimator for my health. Where you store your body fat is a predictor of health risk. So I checked to see if spark people had any information on this and quess what? Of course there's info (and a calculator). 
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BESTCK
10/30/2011 9:00AM
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I'm finding the measuring to be making a difference for me this time around. Usually, I only let the scale determine how I feel, but this time I'm looking at other factors and it's giving me perspective.
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I’ve been a long time YMCA member that switched this summer to Planet Fitness. The YMCA has Precore equipment. I was normally doing 1 hour workouts on the elliptical cross trainer.
Well two months ago, I said adios to Precore and hola to Life Fitness equipment. You see the budget is darn tight. Daughter #1 is in college and daughter #2 is around the corner. Not only am I working on getting myself fit (Fit by 50!), I’m working on getting my family’s budget fit. PF saves me some money.
I had so much anxiety over the switch. It’s scary switching equipment when you have back issues. Even a slight workout change can impact my lower back.
The first day at PF, I tried their Life Fitness elliptical cross trainer. Shut the front door! I could barely make 10 minutes. I look like an insane person that day cussing at the equipment and continuously hitting the level button that didn’t budge from level 1. I was using the cardio setting and inputted my correct age and weight, yet I could only do 10 minutes. Later that week, I felt better after my husband told me he could only do 15 minutes. Sigh… I wanted my Precore back.
I had no choice but to switch it up. Since I could only do 10 minutes, I started walking the treadmill. As days went on, I continued my battle with that elliptical.
After two months at PF, I’m happy to say that I won the fight. I finally hit my 1 hour mark. The even better news is that I no longer get numbness in my feet when using the cross trainer. I always had some level of foot numbness using Precore.
Change is good.
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RIVER331
10/28/2011 7:56PM
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Wow, I didn't know that there could be so much difference between brands of the same type of machine! Newby that I am. It's great that you're getting more through your workouts, and also super important that your feet like the new equipment better. 
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YIWEN39
10/28/2011 7:21PM
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 that's excellent news, well done :-)And your background pic is just gorgeous :-) Have a great weekend :-) Eve 
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I'm exactly the same way. I always tell myself that those women with perfect hair and make-up at the gym can't be working very hard.
