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Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-31-2007, 04:32 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Now who's crazy?

Here's rp when you ask for a second box of raisins.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-31-2007, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap

What the fuck is wrong with my firm? Has everyone's firm turned stupid today, or is it just us being 600 miles away from an earthquake last night?

Gattigap

It's everywhere. The WaPo had a front page article on the rush-hour-from-hell on Halloween, what with all the parents rushing home to take the little ones trick or treating. They identified a number of people who were taking the day off, er "working from home", to avoid the mad rush.

Flinty_McFlint · 10-31-2007, 04:35 PM

Dear Board:

All of you erudite, fancy-book-reading, workout-comparing, ugly-shoe-wearing, whole foods-eating mother fuckers are boring as fuck all. Fuck all of you.

Happy Halloween,

Flinty

cheval de frise · 10-31-2007, 04:39 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy

(to ppnyc) Stop it. For the love of God, just stop it.

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

Different topic--some people here have insane post counts. 16,000+ since 2003???? Wow.

CDF

ltl/fb · 10-31-2007, 04:39 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The thing described to me sounded different than interval training. It was more like getting the heart rate as high as possible with the specific goal of fat burning as opposed to improved performance. Obviously, as you get better at pulling ergs or sprinting or hauling ass on an eliptical or swimming all out, your performance will improve over time. But, with this, the valleys are a lot, lot lower than in what I consider traditional interval training (i.e. sprint between two light poles, jog the next two, sprint the next two). The all out intervals are pretty short and the recovery is much longer.

(I think this is the NYT article.)

That is indeed the article I was referring to, and it is not really interval training.

Re: heart rate monitor, my gym has I think 4 or 5 types of elliptical trainers. I use one of the three that varies resistance AND has the "crossramp" or whatever that varies height AND allows me to check my heart rate, which is how I can tell I'm doing the same workout (in terms of strides per minute, height and resistance) but my heart rate is not going sky-high like it had been. To me, that is progress. It does go really, really sky-high during the "sprint" intervals. I usually do five at a normal-fast pace, one at a total all-out sprint, then keep going but slow until I feel human again (which is like a minute at first, but then gets longer), then go medium until 4 or 5 min are up, then do another minute all-out, repeat.

I don't know what it's doing vis-a-vis fat burning, but it really has had a much more dramatic effect on my heart rate responses than any other time I've started exercising.

None of this is to say that I'm like an exercise superhero or in shape or anything; I just find it interesting how quickly I notice relative changes in my heart rate and stuff, in connection with working out.

robustpuppy · 10-31-2007, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Here's rp when you ask for a second box of raisins.

My cat is dead. Thanks for the sympathy.

ABBAKiss · 10-31-2007, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
These came yesterday. I'm wearing them to work today, because that is how I roll. Very cute!

Those are cute-cute shoes!!!!!! I am not wearing my cute-ugly shoes right now, but I think I will wear them when I take my nephew and neices trick or treating tonight.

Replaced_Texan · 10-31-2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
I assume mats since they want us to bring our own.

Dare I ask what a reformer is? Is this some kind of crazy cult disguised as an exercise class? Have the Scientologists from BU spread to my funky urban neighborhood?

I think that it's safe to say that there are definitely Pilates cultists. In fact, I think there are a few off-shoot sects, too.

The reformer is a machine resembling a medieval torture device in appearance. There are a variety of springs and pulleys and ropes that you use to move a platform around while you're in various positions on or above the machine.

ltl/fb · 10-31-2007, 04:42 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
Instead of skipping out early in the afternoon in order to take the Gaplets trick-or-treating, I decided to simply work from home today, which is pleasant enough but a bit odd because I keep getting emails about the costume reception from 3-5pm, and from Accounting that have a cumbersome background graphics of a black silhouette of a house against an orange sky saying "Come by the 5th floor -- IF YOU DARE!!!!!"

What the fuck is wrong with my firm? Has everyone's firm turned stupid today, or is it just us being 600 miles away from an earthquake last night?

Gattigap

I initially read this as "decided to walk home from work today" and thought "ooh, healthy!" and then immediately thought "Uh, but for him, that is non-possible."

Sparklehorse · 10-31-2007, 04:45 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
I assume mats since they want us to bring our own.

Dare I ask what a reformer is? Is this some kind of crazy cult disguised as an exercise class? Have the Scientologists from BU spread to my funky urban neighborhood?

Sort of like gymnastics, there is some equipment that is used for Pilates. Here is a reformer:

NotFromHere · 10-31-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Here's rp when you ask for a second box of raisins.

Ha. As if anyone would ask for another box of raisins. People who give out raisins get their houses egged and their pumpkins smashed.

Sparklehorse · 10-31-2007, 04:47 PM

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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Sort of like gymnastics, there is some equipment that is used for Pilates. Here is a reformer:

ETA: I am a glassy-eyed member of the Stott Pilates cult since that is the version available at my gym.

ltl/fb · 10-31-2007, 04:50 PM

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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Sort of like gymnastics, there is some equipment that is used for Pilates. Here is a reformer:

I paid I think $60 for an hour of semi-private (2 students, one instructor) lessons in Dallas, with the machines. In a couple weeks, I'm getting a free private session at my gym; I may start doing it again. Not sure how much it costs. I liked the semi-private because one-on-one is really just not necessary, but it doesn't seem to exist at my gym, unfortunately. Group classes always seem like they are too big for the instructor to be keeping track enough of everyone's exact positions.

cheval de frise · 10-31-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Dear Board:

All of you erudite, fancy-book-reading, workout-comparing, ugly-shoe-wearing, whole foods-eating mother fuckers are boring as fuck all. Fuck all of you.

Happy Halloween,

Flinty

2, except for the "fuck all of you." I can't afford the co-pays.

CDF

Not Bob · 10-31-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by cheval de frise
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

Different topic--some people here have insane post counts. 16,000+ since 2003???? Wow.

CDF

Look, pal, just because *you* have a life, don't come around here mocking the rest of us.

(Long time, no see -- how's it going?)