Honest, I'm being honest with myself...but sometimes it really sucks! One of the reasons I wanted to get the Exerspy is because I wanted to know how hard I was actually working out every day. I felt that I needed a better idea of how my body was discarding those nasty little calories. So I get my little gadget, plug it in, and use it for the past 24 hours. Low and behold, apparently my metabolism is taking the slow train to Chinatown. I thought for sure I was incinerating about 2200 calories a day...not so much.
Today I did a pretty rough workout, spent a normal day at work (which consists of sitting in an uncomfortable chair and walking back and forth to the printer), and came home to family time and normal evening activities and I'm only at 1808. One of the many cool things about this handy little buddy is that I can see exactly how many calories I burn while exercising...and also one of my big disappointments for the day. I sweat and huff and puff so much during my workouts you would think that calories would run to get away from me. I thought I was burning about 500 calories/hour during a hard workout...turns out I'm only burning about 275. Not exactly the result I was expecting.
That being said, this is exactly why I wanted the little bug. I wanted to have a more accurate idea of what MY body was actually capable of doing and not what some machine was guessing for me. In my opinion, knowledge is power and the more I have the better off I am. So I'm adding this to my fitness-knowledge vault and using it to my advantage!
That's really interesting...kind of stinks that you're only burning 275 for as hard as I know your working out but it's good info to know! Now you got me curious what I'm doing. I feel like I'm gonna die when I working out and I know I'm not working as hard as you are. I'm prolly at like 100 calories if I'm lucky. I think now I want one!
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