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The ideal thing to do would be to go to a sports medicine clinic--many hospitals, including teaching hospitals, have one-- and get your lean body mass and percent body fat estimated. They can give you an ideal body weight (actually a range) to shoot for. I did that recently and was charged around $3...

Good workaround! The problem, as you point out is The downside is that you can run out of steps (the entire Favorites menu can only hold so many total steps) Doing such short intervals I imagine you would run out pretty quickly indeed. Maybe if it can hold 6 or so short-long cycles, then take a brea...

That's my point, that it doesn't capture much of anything happening during the rest period. Specifically I'd like some measure of the amount of work I've done or calories burnt. It shouldn't be as if nothing is happening during the rest periods, because that's not the case. I do have a heart rate mo...

It seems this topic must have come up sometime before. Does this bother anyone else? When you program the PM4 to count down the seconds for interval training, as it keeps its running total of the number of calories burned, it does so only for the active phases and not for the rest periods. Let's say...

We recommend a damper setting of 3-5 for the best aerobic workout. The above is a quote from C2's website. But suppose you are doing a fair amount of an aerobic work via interval training. Does that make a difference? Also, if 3 to 5 in the "best" range to be in, it begs the question, why do the se...

I got my heartrate up to 185 doing a hard 5k with the last 500M all out. The "220 minus your age", guessing method is not even close to accurate. 220-49=171. If you're still interested in estimating max heart rate, there's a discussion under Links and Articles. The discussion off the topic of Links...

This forum is titled "Links and Articles". So far much of the commentary has involved a lot of personal opinion with little data to back it up. Of course one's individual data ultimately trumps what might have been observed in hundreds of other people, but only for that individual. If you think all ...

The sample size did not seem small at all. There were 132 subjects with test procedures repeatedly for a total sample size of 908 testing procedures. Here's a quote from the Discussion section with a caveat addressing your point about estimation vs direct measurement: The final linear prediction equ...

In case anyone is interested, below is some Excel code that will compute your maximum heart rate according to the traditional formula and according to the revised methods in the May journal article by Gellish. I had to use some formatting workarounds to get it to be legible in the post because I cou...

In another forum, Alissa mentioned limitations to the traditional method of estimating maximum heart rate (220-age). Below I've pasted the PubMed abstract of a May 2007 journal article that presents a method that more accurately reflects people's true max heart rate. In the full text of the article,...

I said that the 2007 article wasn't mentioned in the NY Times article, but it was. (Lead author was Talanian.)

This URL... jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/98/6/1985 (Note: you'll need to put the slashes, colon, etc directly in front of it but not the 3 w's -- the system won't let me post a URL because I'm a new user.) . . . will get you to the free full text of the article mentioned by the NY Times. At t...

This is interesting, and I'd like to read the study directly. But I don't see it listed in PubMed, and I don't see it mentioned on the ScienceLink site. Can you supply a link to where you saw it? Thanks.