Today was a rest day and family day. I came home and did outside work and adjusted the treadles on the Tread Climber and tightened them. It will stop if the belts are not right. I noticed that my Fit Bit was picked up on the read out and the Tread Climber showed my heart rate and calorie burn without a strap
Now I am wanting to do a workout on it. Yesterday was making dog cookies, dog bath, cook up of a Mexican Chicken Chowder from Against all Grain, Paleo Banana bars, roasted asparagus, sugar free lemon cheesecake mousse for my husband, chopping veggies and some other stuff. I went to cut up a cantaloupe and the insides ran out. It did not smell good so I had to toss it. I need to quit buying out of season fruits because I keep finding bad ones.
Deb, the weather here is supposed to remain in the 70's for the next few days. It is nice outside today. I went out and swept up some leaves and stuff before I put out the trash this afternoon. The City came out with an option on the insurance for the retired officers. They are going to pay part of the price increase this year and then it will go up the rest of it next year. This is for the PPO. The HMO does not change it is higher. I am on the fence on changing. PPO is nice for picking your own provider and costs less but there are more substantial deductibles. Plus I have already started stuff with the HMO. I have 1 year left myself before Medicare. There was too big of a cry out by retirees and officers on the insurance increase. So, they sent out a different print out with changes. I am sorry for the misunderstanding, my husband is not military. He is police. He did serve with the military, dressed military, and did everything with them as well as training them, but was with a contractor. He has been to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kosovo. Quite a few years of work. They supplied different insurance for him and we always kept the city insurance. I thought I had explained this before. It has been awhile though. We have been looking at option . There are other programs out there. I have heard them talk about one on the radio that sounds similar to one that my Dad had that was a Christian Businessman Insurance . It took care of a lot as well as the VA. My husband mentioned dropping the city insurance when I start Medicare.
Lorie, from what I have read the bungee cords are even better on the joints. Maybe some day I can get one
I kept seeing all of these Power Jump workouts that were over an hour and kept scrolling looking for something shorter to try. I would be some of those shorter ones are just portions of what the longer ones are. Most workouts go by the average heart rate for the calorie burn in the end. It is hard to maintain those high end heart rates for long periods of time. Even my calorie calculator uses the average heart rate with length of time, age, fitness level(It did use VO2 max as an option) I think they did away with that. It gives a gross calorie burn and a net calorie burn. I go by the net when I am working on figuring the calorie burns. Sometimes my devices all come out close. Usually with cardio workouts.
Judy, I like my Schwinn bike, but then I have not used anything else to have a comparison. I think that I mentioned that I got it on an Amazon brief sale for 87 dollars. Someone else had spotted it and we all ordered in the group. It is much higher priced now. Mine did have a little crack in the rubber on the handle but it has not been a problem for me and I have not complaints. It was a nice piece of equipment to have when I had my knee surgery. It was some of the first cardio I was able to do getting back into my workouts. I just lean my rebounder up against my spin bike. It has folding legs so can lie flat if I want it too. It also folds in half but it is so hard to get in and out and there are warnings that two people should do it. Once I opened it and did not want to fold it up again. I have flattened it by folding the legs and put it in the back of my Escape to travel with me. It is light and easy to move out of the way.
Valerie, I think if I had to adjust the spin bike when I used it I would not use it very much. It took me awhile to get mind adjusted to my comfort. My fingers get numb and I try not to grip the handles very much and just lay them on at the different positions. It seems odd that it is my hands that are not comfortable. My bike has the toe baskets. We used to have a DP weight machine that fastened to the wall. My husband finally gave it to another officer. I was the one that ended up using it. It was purchased for my husband and son. My Bow flex was sold not long ago at my daughters' . I miss it a little. Mostly for leg curls, extensions, and lat pull downs. I went through times where I would incorporate it a lot and others where it would sit for a long time. Those power rods required plenty of room to pull down and with the bench out it took up a lot more room than the look all folded up. I used the lat tower in place of pull ups on videos and I used some of the settings for things like front squats on STS meso 3 that used the squat rack. I also used it for some moves on the Beast workouts. I like a dvd type workout better myself. We have set things like that out on the curb and someone will generally pick it up. We don't make any money off of it though.
Carolyn, I had one of those Tony Little gliding pieces of equipment once. I don't recall using it much. Also got rid of a recumbent bike that I got from my daughter. A lot of equipment seems to move around amongst the family
Caitlin, nice work with the groceries.
