I like the life fitness treadmill with its simultaneous display of calories, distance, time, incline, speed, and heart rate. I like its 5 minute cool down and I note starting and ending hart rates of cool down. I count my perspiration per minute with time display. I wish time display went to 99 minutes. Also I find the one minute pause very useful for recording rates on paper (heart and respirations).
~Frank Eubanks
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My statement had errors on it, I do not know whether the errors were my errors, or Abigail Mack's miscopying errors, or a combination of both! Here is my revised corrected statement: "I like the fitness treadmills with their simultaneous display of calories, distance, time, incline, speed, and heart rate. I like their 5 minute cool down feature; and I note starting and ending heart rates of my cool down to put in my memo 'training log' book. One thing that I use the time display for is to count my respirations per minute at various speeds. I start off at 2.0 miles per hour, and increase speed by 0.1 MPH per minute, reaching 4.0 miles per hour in 20 minutes for a warmup; except if I take my respiration rate at a given speed below 4.0 MPH, I take the rate after walking at that speed for one minute; and that will add one minute to the time I reach 4.0 MPH, for each speed under 4.0 MPH that I take my respiration rate. I wish that the time display went up to 99 minutes, so I could go 7 miles on the treadmill without having to stop and restart the treadmill, like I have to do when I reach 4 miles on the treadmill because it will automatically stop and go into 5 minute cool down mode when it reaches 60 minutes. When I use a treadmill, I train by distance; I do not train by time! When I use the treadmill, I go a set distance, and I record the total time for that distance in my 'training log'. I use the 'up to one minute' pause feature to stop and write down my heart and respiration rates at a given speed and 'total training time so far' in my 'training log' (it usually takes about 30 sedconds to write it down), and the pause time is not included in the total time on the Life Fitness treadmills the YMCA has." I also used the YMCA anaerobic equipment to help maintain my physical strength. Right now I am deep in debt and have not found a way to afford a YMCA membership at present. My membership expired on November 26, 2009. Since then, I have lost a significant amount of anaerobic fitness. I am weaker than what I was on November 26th. I had a flat tire about a month ago and I did not have enough strength to loosen any of the 5 lug nuts to change the tire with a 4-way lug wrench. I ask that you pray the God will make a way, out of what seems like no way, for me to afford a Metro YMCA membership.
Frank Eubanks
May 12, 2010
I made an spelling error in my comment. "Sedconds" should read "seconds."
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