from a metabolic perspective, that is: the above graph shows my heart rate during a hockey game Tuesday evening. The peaks are my shifts on the ice and the troughs are rests on the bench (the slightly-larger troughs are between periods).
Like millions of others I’ve got a New Year’s resolution to lose some weight, so I’m using this pulse watch-thingy to see which workouts are most effective. Hockey is good because it gets me up in the 180bpm range which is pretty high; For comparision, running or riding a bike are pretty good but don’t peak as high. Below is my typical run around Green Lake:
The average during exercise is about the same as the hockey game, but the spikes aren’t as high. Hockey is a bit more intense and burns more calories, as you’d expect.
The most interesting one is the record of all workouts, which shows I’m a bit off from six days per week which is what I really need to do in order to shed some weight:
That’s not bad, but could stand some improvement.
So why do all this? There’s no need to geek out on workout data of course, but I find it interesting and it helps keep me honest. I’ve dropped about five pounds so far… it would be more than that if I had better eating habits. That is going to take some time…
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