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Zumba all weekend long with The Hickory Girls

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Steve and Jason will be attending multiple Zumba events 10/15 – 10/17 in Washington. Below is a video from The Hickory Girls (Heather, Kat and Courtney) talking about this upcoming event.  We’ve included the schedule below the video in case you want to attend any of the events (if they are not sold out already!).

Friday

Saturday

  • NW Sarcoma Foundation Fundraiser- The Rage Cage in Everett 11am to 1pm
    1520 112th St SW
    Everett, WA
  • Zumba Party – Studio Phoenix in Marysville
    9114 State Ave
    Marysville, WA 98270

Sunday

  • Zumba Master Class with the Hickory Girls in Olympia!  11am to 1pm
    Fusion the Integrated Body
    302 Columbia St.
    Olympia, WA 98501
  • Zumbathon Fundraiser 5pm to 7pm
    StudioZ Stanwood
    7009 265th Street Suite 105, Building B
    Stanwood, WA

Foursquare badge for doing something not just checkins

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Foursquare announced that they are parterning with RunKeeper to allow users to get badges for accomplishing fitness tasks when using the RunKeeper application.

Here it is in their own words:

Here’s how it’ll work: users of RunKeeper, an application that helps you track your fitness routines, can now earn RunKeeper-exclusive badges on foursquare by achieving different milestones within their app. For instance, if you run a marathon using RunKeeper, you’ll unlock their Marathon badge. Once you unlock a badge, it will show up on both your RunKeeper profile and with your other badges in foursquare.

Unlock badges without checking in

I’m a heavy Foursquare user and I hope they expand this more than just Running.

GeekFit.com Podcast #45 – (360) 450-5026

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Jason and Steve are back in front of their respective mics again this morning. This show is dedicated to @JessicArchitect who goaded us into getting up this morning and knocking it out. There were lots of fun things to talk about this time including some new product reviews, personal updates, and a little bit of tech thrown in for good measure.

ZiH Crew video after the jump.

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Letter to My Trainer

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I’ve been working out with a personal trainer (I haven’t gotten permission to use her name, yet). We had a debate about whether the Body Bugg (BB) or a heart rate monitor (HRM) is a better judge of calorie burn.

If you’re not familiar with the BB, it’s a unit that you wear strapped to your upper left arm all day long. At the end of the day you plug it into your computer, upload your data, and the website will present a graph with your calories burned throughout the day. A HRM is more straightforward – you wear a strap around your chest just under your pecs and it transmits your heart rate to a wrist watch (or other device).

My Polar FT7 came in the mail today. I read the manual, configured it for my weight, height, age, and gender and it dutifully reported that my max heart rate was 188 beats per minute (BPM). You can find yours by subtracting your age from 220. I ran the center portion under water, attached the WearLink® unit, and headed to Zumba. The results are in a letter to my trainer; Jason Tucker; and of course; my Zumba instructor, Kelly Emerson of Vancouver Zumba.

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Hi [there],

Today I wore a Polar FT7 during an hour of Zumba and came up with the following: 619 cals burned, 59:53 duration, 146 average bpm, 161 max bpm, 10:36 spent in fat burn range, 49:17 spent in fitness range. I uploaded my Body Bugg data and selected the same ~1 hour period and it reports 784 calories burned.

The Body Bugg site says the skew is due to having multiple data points instead of a single data point “which is what other calorie estimation devices such as pedometers and heart rate monitors rely on.” So, is an HRM inferior technology for measuring calorie burn? Maybe, but it’s possible it’s marketing hype. For me, it’s all relative. Whether it’s the scale, Body Bugg, HRM, or Omron body fat tester – their efficacy isn’t in question because as long as you’re using the same device to measure each data point you can tell when it’s going up and down.

I’ll continue to wear the Body Bugg to collect the waking-hours data and the HRM for workouts where intensity is something I’m interested in maintaining. That would be anything other than kickboxing and Zumba since I don’t have much control over the routines. I always squat a little bit lower and squeeze the abs a little bit tighter because I know that’s what is going to get me the most bang for the buck, but I don’t need an HRM to tell me that.

I’m looking forward to hitting the elliptical and seeing how consistently I can keep my heart rate in the fat burn zone. From what I’m seeing from the Zumba data my cardio fitness time is already covered.

/sk

GeekFit Podcast #35 – (360) 450-5026

Steve and Jason return with a very special GeekFit presented in both Audio and Video for your enjoyment.

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This Is Not a Diet

My buddy Jacob has a health and fitness website called This Is Not a Diet where he is documenting the journey of some of his friends and family losing weight and living healthy.  Their tagline is: “It’s a year long mission to break the habits that make us unhealthy and overweight”. Currently they have thirteen people involved in this project, they document their struggles and achievements in the form of words, video, audio and pictures. I plan to get him on the show to discuss what they are doing over there and how everyone is progressing.

ThisIsNotADiet.org

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