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20 minutes on the Wii Fit, .5 mile. Total: 849 mi. From Rivendell: 453 mi. Still loitering about Cerin Amroth.
Wore my heart rate monitor while on Wii Fit today and discovered something unexpected: I was actually burning more calories than Wii Fit estimated I was! I'm so used to estimates being too much that it came as a surprise. So when I spend 20 minutes doing only aerobic things (didn't feel like doing balance games today), I burn quite a bit.
Wii FIt: 147 calories
Pedometer: 79 calories
Heart rate monitor: 218 calories
None of them are perfectly accurate, of course, but the HRM should be more so than the others, as it measures my actual heart rate. I'll have to continue to wear it when I do different games, since a lot of them aren't as aerobic as the others, but I figure I'll be able to estimate how well I did after a while.
Wore my heart rate monitor while on Wii Fit today and discovered something unexpected: I was actually burning more calories than Wii Fit estimated I was! I'm so used to estimates being too much that it came as a surprise. So when I spend 20 minutes doing only aerobic things (didn't feel like doing balance games today), I burn quite a bit.
Wii FIt: 147 calories
Pedometer: 79 calories
Heart rate monitor: 218 calories
None of them are perfectly accurate, of course, but the HRM should be more so than the others, as it measures my actual heart rate. I'll have to continue to wear it when I do different games, since a lot of them aren't as aerobic as the others, but I figure I'll be able to estimate how well I did after a while.