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Post by Bean on Feb 14, 2019 8:12:29 GMT
Slow jogging sounds much better than running - I like the whole idea of not getting out of breath! Actually, the technique of regularly alternating walking and slow jogging sounds quite a lot of my school runs a few years back!
I've had three different brands, 3piggles, although all cheap Chinese makes...! Only one leaked. The other kept resetting everything to zero every few hours, and the last one didn't synch to my phone, failed to recognise swimming at all (it had a mode which was supposed to), and had a terrible sleep monitor. I don't need perfection in accuracy by any means, but I expect it to register me as awake when I'm running around the house clocking up steps!
I may just have to accept that I'll have to spend more if I want something half decent, but if you read reviews of the more expensive ones like the fitbit, they still get loads of dud reviews too.
65,000 steps a day?! Crikey, I had some very active days when I was wearing the one that worked before I went swimming, and didn't get close to that!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 14, 2019 9:29:02 GMT
it is they who should be embarrassed love, not you. I just cannot imagine 65,000 steps per day, I think several marathons would have to take place and then I don't think it would amount to that much.
hugs jo xx
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Post by shades on Feb 14, 2019 10:00:47 GMT
There must be something fishy going on. It's just not humanly possible to walk so many steps. You need at least 1000 steps per km.
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Post by shades on Feb 14, 2019 11:11:50 GMT
Slow jogging sounds much better than running - I like the whole idea of not getting out of breath! Actually, the technique of regularly alternating walking and slow jogging sounds quite a lot of my school runs a few years back! not trying to sound like an expert but an American Olympian Jeff Galloway "invented" the walk-run-walk method that many training plans follow www.active.com/running/articles/jeff-galloway-s-run-walk-run-training-plan
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Post by Bean on Feb 14, 2019 19:19:22 GMT
Oh give it a few months, and I think you'll have your own fitness channel on YouTube, Shades!
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 14, 2019 21:03:43 GMT
She's probably a marathon power walker. Those people are driven, and they almost can't help themselves. If they stop walking or jogging, life catches up with them. I'm lucky to do 3K steps per day, and trust me, I'm not very fast. I'd say I have barely making it from Point A to Point B down to a science I am getting out to walk a little, whenever possible, just on the street in front of the house. I've been walking to the mailbox, and I walked over to the house next door to meet hubby after he parked the car. Not much, but it's getting me walking again. I use the step logger to motivate me. I compete with myself, so if I set a goal of 3K steps, I work toward that. The tracker helps me know how I'm doing. Honestly, though, the first tracker was $50, the Fitbit, and it worked great at just tracking steps. I would have stayed with those, if we hadn't gotten these Samsung fitness watches for free. Of course, Samsung gave us the cheapest one, hoping we'd get hooked, and want the most expensive one. We won't, but they can try.
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Post by Bean on Feb 15, 2019 8:11:26 GMT
I think setting your own goals and comparing yourself only to what you want to be doing is by far the best idea. It's just that insight it gives you into how you could improve your own health and lifestyle that's so important. Like you doing the extra little walks which will benefit you by keeping you moving. I don't give a monkeys if some nutter's doing thousands more steps than I am!
Do Samsung want to give me a free watch too?!
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 15, 2019 22:37:21 GMT
The watch came with the last phone I bought, so I think you have to buy the phone, too
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Post by Bean on Feb 16, 2019 8:15:02 GMT
Oh boo, I definitely don't need a new phone! We have a pretty decent chain of shops that trade in second hand electronics. They test everything and have great customer service if something does end up being faulty. So I might look at slightly better brands of fitness trackers and then see if I can pick up a second hand one. It's just not something I want to spend much money on.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 16, 2019 13:27:19 GMT
I am still waiting for my phone to have some credit put on. apparently, there is something wrong with it and it is the only type the local phone shop does not deal with. or at least that is what I am told. there again, it is for me so it doesn't matter.
hugs jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 17, 2019 22:04:42 GMT
I think fitness trackers, if you're not sure how much you're going to use them, are best inexpensive. If you find you really use it, then you can upgrade to something that covers more that you want covered. Samsung Health, which is an app, covers way more than I need covered, and pushes, with reminders, "You haven't moved in almost an hour," etc., so it does a whole lot of motivating my basic Fitbit didn't do. It also costs $150 or something, while my Fitbit cost $49.99. I found the Fitbit just as motivating, and just as able to get me moving.
I also think Samsung must make fitness trackers that track all types of exercise, as the app has goals for swimming, cycling, walking, running, you name it. You can log the amount of water you drink, and a whole lot of other things I don't use.
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Post by Bean on Feb 18, 2019 8:20:18 GMT
Oh I don't want too much interference, and it'd drive me nuts inputting what I eat and drink. If I didn't want the swimming thing, I'd probably be able to find one easily, but I would like it so am holding out!
My local pool is closed this week, for some essential maintenance. I could visit another pool, but think I'll have a break instead! We played badminton yesterday, and there's not so much objection from my right arm the day after as there was last week!
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 18, 2019 21:49:44 GMT
President Kennedy started a fitness program called The 100 Mile Swim. Anyone interested in participating could get a free card that logged 1/4 mile intervals. My mother measured the length of the local swimming pool, and determined 1/4 mile was 18 laps. You could do the same thing. Figure out how long the pool is, and that will tell you how far you swim each session. There were no trackers of any kind back then, and she didn't need one, really. Everywhere she swam, she asked about the length of the pool, and calculated the number of laps she had to swim to swim 1/4 mile.
I really should start swimming, but it's a long way to a pool, and membership is expensive, so I keep putting it off. It's a great exercise for arthritis, though. Probably better than cycling, since some if it is in my neck and shoulders. I'd also have to get hubby interested, as he would motivate me, and vice versa, so that means two memberships.
My mother always skip school vacation weeks, as she swam during public time, and the pool filled up with kids doing cannonballs off the side, etc.
I have been walking. Not a lot, but enough to make myself get outside and walk to the mailbox across the street, and next door when hubby parked the car over there. It's better than nothing. I don't know if the collagen is working, or if I'm in a bit of a lull with the arthritis. The amount and locations of the pain vary, so it's hard to tell. I should have to finish March and part of April to complete the first 90 days of using the collagen, and will know more then. Either way, I'm still trying to walk a minimum of 3K steps/day, which isn't very far, but is a good amount for me.
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Post by Bean on Feb 19, 2019 12:59:21 GMT
There was some similar challenge over here recently, where you were encouraged to swim the channel, but in your local pool and not all at once. I think it worked to get some people swimming!
I swim 50 x 25 metres each time I go at the moment (twice a week), which is about 3/4 of a mile. The info I'm more interested in is about using the feedback info (pulse etc) to get me working at the ideal pace (rather than just alternating daydreaming and swimming slowly with keeping up with someone else and pushing myself).
I'm sure any extra movement, however small, will be of benefit. It's just about keeping moving without overdoing it, and it sounds like you're doing a good job!
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 19, 2019 22:18:02 GMT
That's a great distance to swim at one time. As my mother used to say, if the boat sinks, you'll make it to shore Joining a place with a pool costs about $800/person/year, so we're probably not going to do that any time soon.
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Post by Bean on Feb 20, 2019 7:15:39 GMT
Crikey, I don't blame you not wanting to pay that! I pay about £25 a month and for that I have unlimited access to the pool and also loads of different exercise classes (not that I have yet - if I go swimming twice a week, I'm saving quite a bit compared to paying for individual sessions, so it's worth it even if I never branch out!). There are definitely times where it seems like an effort to squeeze a swim in with what else I'm doing, but wanting to get my money's worth out of the membership spurs me on to finding time!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 20, 2019 17:10:37 GMT
wow, that is expensive hun. we have exclusive clubs here which cost a fortune to join and there is still a waiting list.
hugs jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 20, 2019 22:28:21 GMT
We have exclusive clubs, too, and I haven't even checked on their prices, as there isn't one anywhere near me. Some hotels have pools, and sell memberships to their pools, and if they have one, exercise rooms. There is the YMCA, which is the least expensive, and has a pool, but they have specific times when it's a public swim. The rest of the time it's some sort of swimming lesson or program. We'd like to be able to go someplace where we can swim when we want to, and not that costs us so much, we feel we have to go in the middle of a blizzard just to get our money's worth. The joy of a capitalist country I will start looking around, and maybe make some calls, if Vic is really willing to swim with me. I don't think I'd have trouble swimming, but might not be able to get up the ladder out of the pool without help.
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Post by Bean on Feb 21, 2019 6:44:57 GMT
Would the YMCA one be a place where you could just pay as you go, or do all of them require you to take out memberships? If you can just go now and then, when you choose, that's a good way to start - especially until you find out if you like it and it works for you both.
There's a hoist at my local pool. And there are also a few people who use wheelchairs, but don't quite need the hoist - they can sit at the side of the shallow end and then get help standing up before transferring into their chair. The lifeguards seem pretty on the ball.
The private gyms are silly money. Out of my price range anyway, but I'm not sure I'd want to pay it even if I could!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 21, 2019 9:59:26 GMT
our library has a ladies only session but they are on too late at night. I love swimming too, especially in the sea.
hugs jo xx
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