Fitness and Muscle Work

What It is? RPM™ is the indoor cycling workout where you ride to the rhythm of powerful music. Take on the terrain with your inspiring team coach who leads the pack through hills, flats, mountain peaks, time trials, and interval training. Discover your athlete within – sweat and burn to reach your endorphin high. Like all the LES MILLS™ programs, a new RPM™ class is released every three months with new music and choreography. Benefits Increase your cardiovascular fitness Burn fat Tone and shape your legs, hips, and butt Increase leg strength and muscular endurance without building bulk Burn up to 600 calories in a normal 50-minute structure Release endorphins to leave you with a natural high How Often If you do RPM™ two to three times per week you’ll feel fitter, stronger and leaner. source: http://www.lesmills.com/

Heart Rate Training (HRT) HRT is tailoring your workouts and performance based upon your heart rate. Believe it or not, you're already sort of doing this, even if you don't have a heart rate monitor. When you run at what you consider an easy pace, what does that really mean? Among other things, it means that you run at a heart rate that you consider maintainable for a specified duration. Monitoring Heart Rate The gadget will have 2 pieces, a strap you wear around your chest to capture your heart rate, and a receiver, typically a watch. You can get all kinds of bells and whistles in these things: calories burned, PC synch capabilities, compass, barometric pressure, and whatnot, but all you really need is one that displays your heart rate and the time. The Training During HRT we call these zones of intensity training. Sometimes we want to keep our heart rate within a certain zone to build aerobic capacity, other times we may want to keep it in a more vigorous zone to build speed....

Here the comparison 130 lb woman, doing treadmill with 5mph speed for 30 min . burns about 235 cal 130 lb woman, bicycling for 30 min with speed 10 mph burns about 175 cal So..running on treadmill will burn more calories, since your body against gravitation. Compare with take stationary bike where your body is resting on the seat.

Some people choose Elliptical to avoid stress on the joint, but Treadmill burn more calories. Next a simple fact calories burn. Choice is yours. For a 135 pound woman, 30 minutes on an elliptical at 5 mph Calories burns: 248 For a 135 pound woman, 30 minutes on a treadmill at 6 mph (10 min miles) Calories burns: 320 Running on a treadmill burns a bit more calories than running on an elliptical. When you use an elliptical, since your feet never leave the pedals, it's low-impact and easier on the joints, but you'll also burn less calories per hour as compared to a treadmill. Since the difference isn't huge, choose whichever machine is the most comfortable, and the one you'll stick to using.