5 Techie Weight Loss Tools
Being the start of a new year, I imagine quite a few of you are restarting the diet you started a year ago. Let's face it: you're fat. Or, is it just me? Well, in case it's not just me, here are a few techie weght-loss tools that may help you reach your goal weight:
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Jeremy Zawodny's Diet Tips: Take diet tips from a fellow techie and give his weight and calorie tracking spreadsheet a try. It helped Jeremy lose 50 pounds!
2.
Calorie King: Zawodny mentions this useful site in his diet tips post. Track the calories you're consuming or look up how many calories that
Big Mac with
Fries and a
Coke has.
3.
Run Fat Boy: Run Fat Boy is a web based self-pace personal training site. After each workout, log the results and mark them as easy or hard. Run Fat Boy follows up with recommendations for your next workout, increasing your strength, endurance, and beach muscles over time.
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Chris Carmichael: He's trained Lance Armstrong, written best-selling books on sports nutrition, and has a team of personal trainers who will work with you on a consulting basis to help you be your best in a wide variety of endurance and strength sports.
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Garmin 305 GPS Heart Rate Monitor: Ben uses one of these and loves it. It tracks how fast your heart is pumping when you're working out, helping you figure out how hard you're training. This is particularly helpful for people starting out who often train harder than they really should to build a strong base. The GPS system tells you your pace in real-time and can be exported to show you the path you ran on a Google Map.
That does look a little over the top. Personally, I'd prefer a nice big web enabled screen in front of the treadmill hooked up to a wireless remote so I could read the news. Using a regular mouse or touchpad would be pretty tough.
Well if you want your laptop on your treadmill then this product does exactly that. www.TheNetRunner.com I'v been using one for 6 months now. It is adjustable to fit most laptops and treadmills. It does lay right on top of the panel so depending on where your treadmill buttons are it may be on the way a bit. However from my experience it seems that setting the speed to a steady speed of 2 mph works the best for me. I can't seem to be able to get to a running speed and use the laptop actively, unless all I am doing is watching a DVD on it. Anyway I highly recommend the product.
1. Posted by: Aaron Landry on January 2, 2007 10:52 AM:
What I really want is a decent treadmill that holds my laptop nicely in front. Almost all treadmills I've looked at have all the controls in front (and not on the sides, where I'd like them) and the ones that would hold a laptop didn't seem like very good treadmills.
Then again, I haven't done too much research yet but I will be soon.
As well, just simply cutting out most all fast food and soda has helped quite a bit in 2006 and I'll be crunching down even harder on that in 2007. (I still eat out and drink too much. :-) )
-Aaron