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Gemme · 08-17-2013, 09:34 AM

All movement counts.

Today was an awesome workout day!

Ye ole treadmill (T6 as my favorite, T5, was being horded by a notorious 'doesn't wipe the machine down after he's done' guy) and I had a marvelous time.

First, I did the first half hour warming up and walking and doing 1.5-2.5 minute running intervals until my legs starting to reconsider. Then, I switched to incline play. Every minute or two, I went up between .5 and 1.0 incline until I hit the maximum incline at 15.0 around the 80 minute mark.

As I got really high....about 11.0-11.5 incline...I knocked down my speed (which wasn't super fast to begin with) so that I wouldn't overextend myself and cause injury or create the situation where I'd have to hold onto the machine to remain upright.

rant

For those that do that, you are CHEATING! Totally. Besides making the machine do your work for you and you (general) not getting all of the health benefits from it, it's increasing the potential for falls and trips, because either the speed is too fast or the elevation is too high. If you can't do it on your own power, there needs to be an adjustment made somewhere.

My only exception to this is the guy with the walker but he keeps his speed verrrrry slow. I just worry for him when he works on an incline. He absolutely needs to hold onto the bars. Or be wrapped in bubble wrap.

/rant

So, by the end of it, I'd spent an hour and a half on T6 and we did beautiful things together like burning 612 calories (Kelt's stats can keep the 12 but the 600 is totally well earned and MINE!), covering 4.82 miles and having a damn good time.

Totally random and useless bit of trivia: my Cascada play list runs 32 seconds shy of 90 minutes.

I tentatively have weight training planned for tomorrow and maybe 15 minutes on the Beast.

08-17-2013, 09:34 AM	#711
Gemme Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Girl of the Unicorn Variety Preferred Pronoun?: She, as in 'She's a GEM' Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The roads are narrow here Posts: 36,631 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 182,496 Thanked 108,146 Times in 25,669 Posts Rep Power: 21474887	All movement counts. Today was an awesome workout day! Ye ole treadmill (T6 as my favorite, T5, was being horded by a notorious 'doesn't wipe the machine down after he's done' guy) and I had a marvelous time. First, I did the first half hour warming up and walking and doing 1.5-2.5 minute running intervals until my legs starting to reconsider. Then, I switched to incline play. Every minute or two, I went up between .5 and 1.0 incline until I hit the maximum incline at 15.0 around the 80 minute mark. As I got really high....about 11.0-11.5 incline...I knocked down my speed (which wasn't super fast to begin with) so that I wouldn't overextend myself and cause injury or create the situation where I'd have to hold onto the machine to remain upright. rant For those that do that, you are CHEATING! Totally. Besides making the machine do your work for you and you (general) not getting all of the health benefits from it, it's increasing the potential for falls and trips, because either the speed is too fast or the elevation is too high. If you can't do it on your own power, there needs to be an adjustment made somewhere. My only exception to this is the guy with the walker but he keeps his speed verrrrry slow. I just worry for him when he works on an incline. He absolutely needs to hold onto the bars. Or be wrapped in bubble wrap. /rant So, by the end of it, I'd spent an hour and a half on T6 and we did beautiful things together like burning 612 calories (Kelt's stats can keep the 12 but the 600 is totally well earned and MINE!), covering 4.82 miles and having a damn good time. Totally random and useless bit of trivia: my Cascada play list runs 32 seconds shy of 90 minutes. I tentatively have weight training planned for tomorrow and maybe 15 minutes on the Beast. __________________ Gemme's Journal I'm misunderestimated.