They are a great excersise, there's something about lifting heavy weights off the floor that just seems right. <br />
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Think your gym is full of it. If you're using bumper plates (the rubber encased ones), you'd have to go to a fair amout of trouble to damage a floor. Having said that can you wack some stretching mats underneath to lessen the impact? That may not go down so well with the stretchers.<br />
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Any tips out there to avoid scraping shins? My legs look like I've tried to shave them with a cheese grater.
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Same here, size twelves and as broad as they go. Asics are just comfortable as. Also, great bounce out of them while running. <br />
[/quote]Can I second (third) asics shoes. After years of rugby induce ankle damage they are the only shoe that have kept me running pain free.<br />
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Get yourself filmed on a treadmill by a speciallist running store (in my experience the Athlete's foot pressure pad is not fantastic as you aren't actually running on it, depending on how much space is in the store) see what they recommend and then buy online if the price in store scares you too much.<br />
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If you have foot, ankle, leg issues Asics make a fantastic (though pretty expensive) boot as well the Gel Lethal. -
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I have used a polar HRM for a while now, has some features that I find really useful. I guess I use it more as a sports watch with the added bonus of the HR stuff.<br />- the ability to record excersise on the watch. Basically the unit measures time excersising, HR, calories burned and time in target range, then you can download it to their website, even up to once every couple of weeks if you can't do it earlier. Find it really handy, cause I'm usually to buggered to remember all of this stuff at the end of a session.<br />
<br /> - Take it with a pinch of salt, but the calaries burned setting is pretty cool if you keep the personal details accurate. Used it last week whilst snow boarding and was astonished how hard I was working. It claimed I burned 3500 calories in 6 hours on the slopes! (Was going pretty hard)<br />
<br /> - For different training aims the HR is pretty useful, as someone mentioned above you can feel like you're working pretty hard but a quick glance will confirm it.<br />
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the problem with teh polars is their cost. If i was going to spend money on a decent HR watch i'd be buying a Garmin GPS watch as their heart rate functionality is top notch<br />
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The polar definately wasn't the cheapest option out there but it has been going solid for at least a couple of hours a week for over 2 years. Can't fault it. Plus the website has heaps of good stuff in it.<br />
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The Garmin GPS stuff does sound very tempting WtW, might have to pick one up when the polar does give up the ghost - have you used them before? Have head the GPS tends to drop out a bit
- the ability to record excersise on the watch. Basically the unit measures time excersising, HR, calories burned and time in target range, then you can download it to their website, even up to once every couple of weeks if you can't do it earlier. Find it really handy, cause I'm usually to buggered to remember all of this stuff at the end of a session.<br />
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I have used a polar HRM for a while now, has some features that I find really useful. I guess I use it more as a sports watch with the added bonus of the HR stuff.<br />
- the ability to record excersise on the watch. Basically the unit measures time excersising, HR, calories burned and time in target range, then you can download it to their website, even up to once every couple of weeks if you can't do it earlier. Find it really handy, cause I'm usually to buggered to remember all of this stuff at the end of a session.<br />
<br /> - Take it with a pinch of salt, but the calaries burned setting is pretty cool if you keep the personal details accurate. Used it last week whilst snow boarding and was astonished how hard I was working. It claimed I burned 3500 calories in 6 hours on the slopes! (Was going pretty hard)<br />
<br /> - For different training aims the HR is pretty useful, as someone mentioned above you can feel like you're working pretty hard but a quick glance will confirm it.
- the ability to record excersise on the watch. Basically the unit measures time excersising, HR, calories burned and time in target range, then you can download it to their website, even up to once every couple of weeks if you can't do it earlier. Find it really handy, cause I'm usually to buggered to remember all of this stuff at the end of a session.<br />
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