First Icrontimondo Challenge - August blitz for calories!
the_technocrat
IC-MotY1Indy Icrontian
2-week Icrontic blitz. Most calories burned with any sport wins.
Be sure your height and weight are in your Endomondo profile well in advance, and let's see what you can do! (people can't see your details, but they're needed for calculating calories)
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Be sure your height and weight are in your Endomondo profile well in advance, and let's see what you can do! (people can't see your details, but they're needed for calculating calories)
<iframe src="http://www.endomondo.com/embed/challenge?c=qlgfWEsa3TY&user=186723&width=500&height=500" width="500" height="500" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
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How does one join in? I'll likely loose, but I need to get back on track with my weight loss program, past few weeks have been... meh....
Why is that?
If you weigh less, you burn less calories when working out since your heart rate won't go as high and you don't have the fat to burn off. It's really as simple as that....
Good example of this is I can do 30 minutes of INTENSE weight training and only burn 100 calories but then there are people who can do an hour of cycling and loose closer to 1000 calories or more. It's VERY weight dependent.
This is all true. Additionally, men burn more calories than women since they have more muscle.
I understand the weight-to-calorie ratio, but it's fair. If I run for a mile and someone 50 lbs heavier than me runs for a mile, they should get the extra calorie credit, since it was a lot easier for me than it was for them.
Basically, to run the same 10-minute mile, they're straining and I'm not.
My stance would be that if both people ran a mile, and both strained the same amount, the calories will come out the same, and the mile times will be different.
This is why I suggested doing something OTHER then a calorie counter one on the Icrontic endomundo page. My heart rate is usually around 60 or so and when I do my weight training it jumps to around ~100 or so. 124 has been my max so far.
I'm still going to participate but I know for a FACT I'm not going to win. I was already VERY much in shape when I joined the team
"straining" as little to do with it, it contributes a bit but it's not a major factor as far as calories are concerned. :thumbup
I'm 160 lbs and have been in at least one competition or another on Endo since June - I can always match anyone's calories by putting forth the same level of effort they do. If they try hard and do a 5K in 45 minutes, I try hard and do a 5K in 30... and our calories come out the same.
You could easily join a mileage competition and wipe the floor with anyone heavier than you - it's easier for you to rack up the miles.
Likewise, you could easily do a minute competition and get destroyed by someone heavier than you, simply because you work out extremely hard for 45 minutes 3x a week, and they're on a treadmill at a stumbling-slow walk for 120 minutes, not even breaking a sweat.
In the competitions I've been in that are 'All sports', the only fair measurement has been calories. It's a measurement of amount of work performed, which can be fairly applied to all people, all sports, IMHO
Loosing weight for me would be a VERY bad thing...
The draw your route feature works well.
Depending on where you are staying here in the UK could dictate that running is the wisest way to stay safe
I will join this.
It's just a public challenge - no way to assign challenges to teams yet.
http://www.endomondo.com/challenge/qlgfWEsa3TY
edit: OHSHI-WAGSATTACK
Ow.
manually input your time and distance, as well as your height and weight in your endomondo profile.
Just be sure to find out what you need to do to burn equivalent calories. For example, someone on a treadmill needs to put it at 2% incline to appoximate the difficulty of walking outside.
You *could* cheat and put the eliptical on 0% resistance and just spin for 2 miles, but who would you be cheating?
How long does it take you to do a mile, according to the machine?
My guess would be
>20 min = walking
middle = fitness walking
<14 min = running
But I suppose that would be different per person. Maybe strides per min would be a better measurement
*hopes the mailman doesn't see this*