Today continued my adventure in to the cardio machines, just burning some calories and making sure I at least keep my body going and not let it cool down to much. So what did I play with today? I played with the elliptical machine, but before I get in to it, I actually got the name and model numbers of the treadmill and the elliptical machine, the brand is Precor.
Here is the treadmill I was using yesterday:
It is a Precor 956i:
And this is what the controls look like:
It’s a pretty nice machine.
Now here is what I was playing with today. Precor 576i
And here are the controls:
Very interesting machine, I had never used one of these before. It felt a little odd at first, and depending how you step certain muscles will hurt because they are not use to moving in certain directions. I also found that the bottom of my foot was hurting as it was never use to being in the position it was, but then again it probably had to do with me and how I was working the machine. The other thing I found is that I did not burn as many calories, but then again it is what the machine was calculating. I spent 40min on the machine, burnt 327 calories.
The only thing I will say is that the machine does not have heart rate detectors on the handles that move, so in order to get your hear rate reading you need to let go of the moving handles and grab the none moving ones in the middle, once you let go the handles that are moving, the machine seems to get lighter on your legs, and as such you tend to speed up a bit. Not a big deal.
Tomorrow is Friday, so I may or may not go to the GYM as I use to take Fridays off, however Starting next week Friday will be part of my workout schedule.
Thank you for your time:
Mike
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