Exercise notes: Anime + metronome = good
The 5-miles-an-hour walk-in-your-living-room DVD sets paces from 130-160 beats per minute in different segments, so I set my metronome for 150 beats per minute and just kept moving fast enough to keep my heart rate in the target zone, along with the assistance of weights and a resistance band thingy, for 4 episodes worth.
I haven't beaten my heart monitor into submission and can't find the instruction book to figure out what combination of buttons you have to push to get it to decide that yes, you really do want it to track THIS exercise routine, not just store the data from the first one after I replaced the battery. But the math says I used somewhere around 1000 to 1200 calories for 100 minutes of aerobics. AND I didn't want to stab my ears out with a spork by the end, either. :)
True facts: I learned how to turn off the annoying bobblehead's voice on the 5-mile DVD... only to discover that the underlying music was actually just as bad.
Tip for any aspiring remixers in the crowd: One does not accomplish good pseudo-techno by sampling the recoil of a broken Xerox machine and intercutting it with Chipmunk rap.
One does not, in fact, accomplish a good anything with the recoil of a broken Xerox machine and Chipmunk rap.
...Just in case anyone out there was wondering. :)
I haven't beaten my heart monitor into submission and can't find the instruction book to figure out what combination of buttons you have to push to get it to decide that yes, you really do want it to track THIS exercise routine, not just store the data from the first one after I replaced the battery. But the math says I used somewhere around 1000 to 1200 calories for 100 minutes of aerobics. AND I didn't want to stab my ears out with a spork by the end, either. :)
True facts: I learned how to turn off the annoying bobblehead's voice on the 5-mile DVD... only to discover that the underlying music was actually just as bad.
Tip for any aspiring remixers in the crowd: One does not accomplish good pseudo-techno by sampling the recoil of a broken Xerox machine and intercutting it with Chipmunk rap.
One does not, in fact, accomplish a good anything with the recoil of a broken Xerox machine and Chipmunk rap.
...Just in case anyone out there was wondering. :)