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| Sat, 11-24-2007 - 10:17am |
My treadmill was delivered this morning!!
| Sat, 11-24-2007 - 10:17am |
My treadmill was delivered this morning!!
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Congrats on your new treadmill!
I want to get a yoga bench and balked at the price but then I thought "I am 40, if I am not going to invest in my health now, when"? So I will do it to help counteract my slump.
Feel good!
My philosophy on spending the money is that it's cheaper than buying a new wardrobe when I outgrow the new clothes that I bought b/c I lost the ten pounds I've gained back.
Just wondering... I'm thinking of buying a treadmill myself. Which one did you buy and (after you've used it, of course) how does it feel? Smooth? Does the belt slide around or is it pretty steady? Does it have an incline feature?
I'd like an elipitical as well but to get a really good one is talking around $3-5,000. So many moving parts. I'm not THAT well off!
Anyway, let me know what you think of your treadmill. I'm going to go to the store this week and try the few out that I've been looking at.
>If you are getting a tread mill to shed pounds, not going to happen<
As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Treadmills utilize the largest muscles in your body. Naturally, trodding along at 2 miles an hour will do nothing more than use up some electricity. However, any exercise is better than doing nothing at all. And if you think treadmills can't deliver a workout, try jogging at 4 MPH on a 12 percent incline.
It's a simple calculation of calories in/calories out and getting your heart beating at its target heart rate.
Now - why don't do you toddle along and find a nice Rush program to suckle from, hmm?
Even at steep inclines treadmills do not stress your muscles enough to keep your metabolic rate significantly up for a 24-48 hr period, which is necessary for weight loss. When you step off the mill your body returns to its normal rate within a few hours. That doesn't help. Plus they target basically only two groups of muscles, thighs and calves, again not enough for the body to go into serious fat burn mode.
And what's this "Rush" you are talking about ?
Edited 11/25/2007 6:49 am ET by hillaryh8er
Of course it is. Like I said, you will feel fitter and it may even tone your legs. But don't expect any noticeable weight loss.
>Now step off the mill and eat a few oreos or its equivalent, and it's as if you never jogged at all.>
Duh. Calories in/calories out. I think I already said that. If you lift weights for an hour and then eat two Big Macs you've negated your workout. Same concept.
>Plus they target basically two groups of muscles, thighs and calves, again not enough for the body to go into serious fat burn mode.>
The lower body houses the largest groups of muscles in the entire body as we are upright walkers (well, most of us are anyway). Gluteus maximus is ALONE the largest muscle in the body. And the thighs are also one of those groups! Hold your abdominals in while you're jogging and you've just added another very large group of muscles.
There is no one "better" way over another for weight loss. Target heart rate, calories in/calories out. Any cardiovascular exercise done at medium to high intensity six days a week coupled with two or three days of weight resistance training and not eating a bag of Oreos or their equivalent = weight loss. Not exactly rocket science.
I bought an elliptical a while back and loved it.
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