It’s time for a new challenge. This one is a bit lighter than my “weekend burn 3.000 challenge”.
During this week (week 3 of 2007) I am going to burn 5.000 calories on workouts alone. Join in?

The prize is amazing:
* weight loss
* better selfconfidence
* improved personal health

Don’t forget to eat sensabily during this challenge.

This one sounds good too - If I can get 2000 in during the week then go for the remaining 3000 over the weekend I should have it covered.

Paula

Once again - I’m in! 

You know, I’m always so caught up in just finishing my workouts with full effort, or calorie counting… I haven’t really focused in directly on how many calories I’m burning until you brought up the challenge. I love it!

So I’m starting my 5,000 countdown today - Tuesday 1/16/07 - to be done by Sunday evening.

By the way - those really are some AMAZING prizes at stake

Great, Carlyn!
Right now I have burned 2496 calories. It is Wednesday and I still got untill Sunday night left! Seems like this one is heading the right direction!

Saturday morning and made it, with one day left!

5167 calories burned on exercise alone this week, and still Sunday left! Finnished off with 65 minutes of treadmill at my local gym (http://www.espern.no) and an half an hour of muscular work out. Great!

Sunday, restday or not? I think maybe not. Hehehe. Are you with me, Carlyn?!!

Go Paperboy!

This is so inspiring! I love the challenge you are throwing in Carlyn’s direction.

Last workout of this week is over.
Here are my results - as logged on my Polar F11 Pulse watch:

7 sessions. 7 hours and 50 minutes spent on work outs this week. 5960 calories burned.

Another challenge, starting monday?

Wow...impressive!

Wow… congrats, Paperboy!  That’s absolutely fantastic!

Just remember—we all need to rest once in a while!  *grin*

Cheers,
Julie

paperboy - 21 January 2007 07:07 AM

... my results - as logged on my Polar F11 Pulse watch: 7 sessions. 7 hours and 50 minutes spent on work outs this week. 5960 calories burned.

Another challenge, starting monday?

Hello Paperboy:

I had a look at Hamar’s Espern Haktivitetspark website.  Wow!    That is an awesome gym!  It looks like   it’s possible to weight train as a group with the Body Pump class.  What classes are you involved in   to burn those 5000+ calories?  And, another question … does the Polar F11 watch measure/calculate calorie burn based upon heart rate … e.g. being between 65% and 85% maximum heart rate? 

Best wishes   for this week’s calorie burn!!

This week - 5,118 calories burned.

4 gym workouts - 1 rest day (walked 3 miles easy pace to keep the muscles warm and functional), 1 ski day, 1 kayak day.  I don’t have a Polar watch, (is the F11 waterproof so I could wear it kayaking and face possible immersion in salt water?) so I based the calorie count on the machines at the gym, or a fairly conservative calorie program I use to track all my workouts.  I calibrated it for my age, weight, resting heart rate, etc so it seems to match what the gym readouts are.  I only count time actually spend moving on the ski and kayak trips, not start to finish trip time. 

I’ll go for it again next week, but I’m definitely taking tomorrow as a rest day. 

These challenges are a lot of fun, but remember that the purpose of MTM is to inspire people to go at their own pace and do what they can do.  If you burn 100 calories more this week than you did last week, if you make one better choice with your diet, if you do one more push-up, or take one more step, you are a winner here. 

Paula

Hey Paula -

12 miles on the Panera trail today on the Rollerblades!  Good times!  Next time you visit Florida you need to let me know you coming.  I’ll set up a good old fashion butt kicking for you just like old times.  Sound fun?

H Scott

I’ll be there.  My next trip is in April and it’s going to be a good old fashioned girls trip to Boca Grande.  Lots of cooking, eating, drinking (all healthy except for Beth’s Creme Brulee and lots of wine.  Then there is the rollerblading, swimming, snorkeling - and I’m going to teach them all kayaking.  It’s a wonderful group of friends - we are all healthy eaters and love to play.  Although we’ve all had our turn to lose 10 to 20 pounds over the years, we all take pride in being healthy and fit.  I was in Florida over Christmas and didn’t gain a pound. 

Paula

Hey - I’ve never run from of a good bottle of wine - as long as I keep up with those workouts.  Let me know when you’re in my neck of the woods.

Ross - High Plains - 21 January 2007 01:42 PM

I had a look at Hamar’s Espern Haktivitetspark website. Wow! That is an awesome gym! It looks like it’s possible to weight train as a group with the Body Pump class. What classes are you involved in to burn those 5000+ calories? And, another question … does the Polar F11 watch measure/calculate calorie burn based upon heart rate … e.g. being between 65% and 85% maximum heart rate?[/size][/color]

1) Espern has 4.000 square meters of exercise space. It’s an industrial hall transformed to a work out park, with play areas for kids, a coffee shop, climbing walls, three gigantic sections of weight train areas, fitness areas, rooms for spinning, squash, aerobic, dance, golf simulator, saunas and solitaries. All you can ask for. It has classes in BodyAttack, BodyPump, BodyJam, BodyStep, Body Balance, Plates, UltraFitness, Condition, Step, Strength, Spinning (45, 60, 90, Projector), QuiGong, AbMagic, Aerobic, Power, Joga, YoungActive, Mother&Child;, Climbing, Dance, Aikido, TaeKwondo…
I attend to Spinning 60. And I use the fitness equipment.
http://www.espern.no

2) The Polar F11 is the best pulse watch for fitness. It has everything. I measures calorie and fat percentage usage during workout, makes fitness programs out of you own goals (with time needed to decrease weight), tells you when you are not working out correctly by an alarm, motivates you, reminds you when it’s time to work out, measures you’re oxygen usage and gives you a monthly fitness grade, uploads you’re work outs to a web site for personal tracking and analysis of you’re fitness development (not OSX unfortunately). If you put in some more cash you even get the Polar F55, that actually keeps track of you’re strength training and measures you’re body to tell you how much you should rest.

Here is all there is to know about it:
http://www.polarusa.com/
http://www.polarusa.com/products/fseries/f11.asp?cat=consumer

The high end F55:
http://www.polarusa.com/products/fseries/f55.asp?cat=consumer

... and there’s Polar watches specially designed for running, cycling and outdoor sports (that actually meassure speed and altitude).

paula9717 - 21 January 2007 10:33 PM

This week - 5,118 calories burned. Paula

Wow! I love competing against you! Great work, Paula! We are both winners last week, because it all comes to one thing: Moving our bodies, as Scott tells us again and again. Tomorrow I will measure my kilograms, see If I have lost some weight this week. I bet you have.

I must sound like a fitness expert, but remind: 10 months ago I hated exercise and I was fat. In April 2006 I found out that the last time I worked out was at college 15 years ago. Now I have lost 14 kilos and work out at an average of five times a week. Feeling and looking greater than I ever have.