No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

orm0nd · 01-12-2020 10:13PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Did any of ye do Movember?

Not personally but contributed to a few.

Junior farm manager raised just under 500

Hard Knocks · 01-12-2020 10:24PM

zetecescort wrote: »

yes

When is it on

zetecescort · 01-12-2020 10:36PM

Hard Knocks wrote: »

When is it on

sorry. next Monday at 9:30

Albert Johnson · 01-12-2020 10:49PM

whelan2 wrote: »

I did the 500000 steps. Feel alot better for it. Nephew did movember, he might need a few more months to be able to see the moustache. I sponsored him

Well done to all involved. What sort of steps would people be clocking up daily? 500,000 sounds a lot and it is but broken down over the month it's under 17,000 daily. I'd surpass the daily target of 10,000 steps most days but I know a lot of office worker's who'd struggle to hit 5,000 without making an effort.

whelan2 · 01-12-2020 10:54PM

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Well done to all involved. What sort of steps would people be clocking up daily? 500,000 sounds a lot and it is but broken down over the month it's under 17,000 daily. I'd surpass the daily target of 10,000 steps most days but I know a lot of office worker's who'd struggle to hit 5,000 without making an effort.

We have a group on another forum. I set up the challenge at the start of November. Some of them were on way under 10k steps a day. I would post on a Sunday morning that I had 5k gone at 9am, some of them had no steps. A few just tried to get more than they'd normally get. Going for it again in December . My aim is 5000 steps by breakfast time, another 5000 by dinner time. 5000 more by tea time. Then clock up whatever I can after

wrangler · 01-12-2020 10:58PM

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Well done to all involved. What sort of steps would people be clocking up daily? 500,000 sounds a lot and it is but broken down over the month it's under 17,000 daily. I'd surpass the daily target of 10,000 steps most days but I know a lot of office worker's who'd struggle to hit 5,000 without making an effort.

I walk about10000 steps every morning with the dogs, Love every minute of it,
It takes about 90mins, OH does it a few times a week but does it in an hour.
It seems to be no help to losing weight though.

Would do about 2-4000 steps then in the rest of the day

whelan2 · 01-12-2020 11:19PM

wrangler wrote: »

I walk about10000 steps every morning with the dogs, Love every minute of it,
It takes about 90mins, OH does it a few times a week but does it in an hour.
It seems to be no help to losing weight though.

Would do about 2-4000 steps then in the rest of the day

Walk faster. Aim to do it in an hour

Dinzee Conlee · 01-12-2020 11:27PM

whelan2 wrote: »

We have a group on another forum. I set up the challenge at the start of November. Some of them were on way under 10k steps a day. I would post on a Sunday morning that I had 5k gone at 9am, some of them had no steps. A few just tried to get more than they'd normally get. Going for it again in December . My aim is 5000 steps by breakfast time, another 5000 by dinner time. 5000 more by tea time. Then clock up whatever I can after

Work in front of a computer all day - if I didn’t make an effort, I could easily get through the day on less than 3k steps...

Would try to get between 5-10k but would have to make a special effort, and it’s not always possible to fit it in...

kollegeknight · 01-12-2020 11:33PM

Fair play Whelan.

I started in Jan to walk/run 2020km by end of December. I used a couch to 10km app. Hit the target about a month ago. Reset my target to run a half marathon.

Started on Sunday- ran 15km- was delighted- wrecked but delighted.

I had stopped running during the lock down as was afraid of twisting ankle (broke it before when I was 17) but said feck it once I saw there was no rush on the hospitals.

I have lost around 12kg-from 114 to 102kg. I would love to get to under 100kg by Christmas but happy with maintaining it also.

Dinzee Conlee · 01-12-2020 11:40PM

kollegeknight wrote: »

Fair play Whelan.

I started in Jan to walk/run 2020km by end of December. I used a couch to 10km app. Hit the target about a month ago. Reset my target to run a half marathon.

Started on Sunday- ran 15km- was delighted- wrecked but delighted.

I had stopped running during the lock down as was afraid of twisting ankle (broke it before when I was 17) but said feck it once I saw there was no rush on the hospitals.

I have lost around 12kg-from 114 to 102kg. I would love to get to under 100kg by Christmas but happy with maintaining it also.

I think I am living the exact opposite life to you College...

wrangler · 01-12-2020 11:50PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Walk faster. Aim to do it in an hour

Can you do it in an hour, OH is walking fairly fast to do it in an hour, that's about 5mph, it's not bad
I have heart failure, I'm getting hard enough to maintain what fitness I have.
I don't have any fancy equipment just what was on a new phone. I entered in my age and weight and it set 30 heart points/day and 7000steps/day, most days I'd almost double those

kevthegaff · 02-12-2020 12:06AM

Does it take into account height, I have long strides

Water John · 02-12-2020 12:12AM

kevthegaff wrote: »

Does it take into account height, I have long strides

Ah I can beat you there. My phone tells me I did 8K yesterday (correct) and took 1,400 steps.

wrangler · 02-12-2020 12:13AM

kollegeknight wrote: »

Fair play Whelan.

I started in Jan to walk/run 2020km by end of December. I used a couch to 10km app. Hit the target about a month ago. Reset my target to run a half marathon.

Started on Sunday- ran 15km- was delighted- wrecked but delighted.

I had stopped running during the lock down as was afraid of twisting ankle (broke it before when I was 17) but said feck it once I saw there was no rush on the hospitals.

I have lost around 12kg-from 114 to 102kg. I would love to get to under 100kg by Christmas but happy with maintaining it also.

What height are you

wrangler · 02-12-2020 12:15AM

Water John wrote: »

Ah I can beat you there. My phone tells me I did 8K yesterday (correct) and took 1,400 steps.

every step would have to be 6 metres, you're a mighty man .......surely you mean 14000 steps

Water John · 02-12-2020 12:17AM

wrangler wrote: »

every step would have to be 6 metres, you're a mighty man .......surely you mean 14000 steps

No, it's gone daft with about a week.

wrangler · 02-12-2020 12:19AM

kevthegaff wrote: »

Does it take into account height, I have long strides

I think it's the number of actual steps, it doesn't measure your steps. distance is by GPS

Water John · 02-12-2020 12:22AM

wrangler wrote: »

I think it's the number of actual steps, it doesn't measure your steps. distance is by GPS

Ah that explains me. Iv'e being going round in circles.

Ah walk is good for the body and mind.

Limestone Cowboy · 02-12-2020 12:50AM

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Well done to all involved. What sort of steps would people be clocking up daily? 500,000 sounds a lot and it is but broken down over the month it's under 17,000 daily. I'd surpass the daily target of 10,000 steps most days but I know a lot of office worker's who'd struggle to hit 5,000 without making an effort.

Normally pass 10000 here. Days we are at concrete it would normally be closer to 20000.

Albert Johnson · 02-12-2020 01:21AM

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Normally pass 10000 here. Days we are at concrete it would normally be closer to 20000.

My daily average is a bit over 16,000 so far this year but I walk a lot on busy sale days. When the big sheep sales were on in August/September I crossed 40,000 steps a few times.

whelan2 · 02-12-2020 06:56AM

The main aim is to increase the amount you have been doing. November would be a crappy month with dark mornings and evenings. Walk rather than bring the jeep etc. Theres a track around the Gaelic pitch which is 1km. Rather than sit in the car when training is on I will do a lap or 2. Broke my ankle years ago and it's not great atm but will try and get my step goal each day and more

Lady Haywire · 02-12-2020 10:17AM

kevthegaff wrote: »

Does it take into account height, I have long strides

I had two different cheapish sort of fitness watches that took the stride length into account, when setting up you had to walk ten paces & it calculated the distance/stride.
Broke both within a year, just can't keep a watch for the life of me.
Pigsback is great for 'deals' on those kind of watches as I wouldn't always have my phone with me.

_Brian · 02-12-2020 10:20AM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I had two different cheapish sort of fitness watches that took the stride length into account, when setting up you had to walk ten paces & it calculated the distance/stride.
Broke both within a year, just can't keep a watch for the life of me.
Pigsback is great for 'deals' on those kind of watches as I wouldn't always have my phone with me.

Have the Honor5 here, got it in Argos for €40, does heart rate etc. Have it maybe 6 months amd it works fine.

kevthegaff · 02-12-2020 10:21AM

It's funny went for a jog with a friend awhile back around a lovely park, beautiful day. All he was doing was looking at the watch, 1km down now hed say. The run seemed to take forever!

_Brian · 02-12-2020 10:26AM

Forgot to post this.
Picked up our Heifer from the butcher.

She weighed 550kg going, 220kg coming back. He said she had a hurt on back end that needed cutting out. Was surprised by that. At grass all her life bar last three weeks ground went to hell and she was in slatted shed in a pen of 8

Very happy, they packaged labelled steaks etc depending on how many in each house as it’s split in two. Frozen and all coming.

Let the feasting begin !!

I mistakenly said we were paying similar to knowlegenight, ours was more expensive @ €350 for all.

DukeCaboom · 02-12-2020 10:29AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Walk faster. Aim to do it in an hour

That's running

Lady Haywire · 02-12-2020 10:36AM

_Brian wrote: »

Have the Honor5 here, got it in Argos for €40, does heart rate etc. Have it maybe 6 months amd it works fine.

I think the first one got a wetting during calving one year, second one got a wallop & didn't work right after, had a pedometer which got an accidental washing in my pocket too.
Sure once my clothes fit I'm ok

whelan2 · 02-12-2020 10:58AM

DukeCaboom wrote: »

That's running

A brisk walk

whelan2 · 02-12-2020 11:00AM

Some of those fitness trackers are terrible. I used to get digger steps with a fitbit. Have a garmin now that eldest lad used to use. A lot more accurate

_Brian · 02-12-2020 11:00AM

whelan2 wrote: »

A brisk walk

Any walk and exercise is good.
But best benefit it needs to get the heart rate up.

As they say, if you can talk and walk you need to walk faster.

No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

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