Exercise Status 2/13/06
OK, time for the weekend update:
DDR: played about an hour (1/2 on light game mode, 1/2 on lesson mode)…light mode is a lot harder than beginner in workout mode. For those who are unfamiliar with DDR, the workout mode has 3 difficulty levels; beginner, workout, and standard. Game mode also has 3 levels: light, standard, and heavy. I naturally assumed that beginner mode with correspond with light mode, and so on up the ranks. However that’s not true. Who knows why, but the exercise mode is dumbed down a bit from the game. Looks like I have a lot of practice to go before moving up to standard!
The lesson mode is kinda cool. You have 3 lessons and 8 sections w/in each lesson. An example is shown on the left side of the screen, and the right side has a person doing the moves. Then you go through it twice, and if you do well enough you’ll be prompted to move to the next section. Section 8 of each lesson is like a cumulative test, when you go through the whole song (pieces of which you’ve done in previous sections) without the guide person. While a little boring in the beginning, it is really helpful to see how they suggest placing your feet for certain standard moves. I found some combinations of arrows are really simple once you see the dance pattern behind them. For anyone new, I suggest checking it out!
Non-DDR: Well the upside of shoveling a foot of snow on a huge driveway was the workout. We were out shoveling for about 2 hours yesterday, and I don’t think my heart rate was below 120 bpm the whole time. And check it out, on this calorie counting site, it says for my weight, shoveling snow for 2 hours equates to a whopping 762 calories burned. Holy Toledo! And for Drew, it says 1,442 calories for that same 2 hours! Now I don’t feel so bad about eating Olive Garden for dinner :) We probably still came out ahead!
The downside of course is that we’re sore as hell and it hurts to move. Rar!
Posted by: Fuzzy Bunny | 02-13-2006 | 11:02 AM
Posted in: Exercise | Personal
Yes, my pancreas is killing me today! JK! I am sore today for sure but I am glad that we started working out a couple of weeks ago, otherwise I think I would be a lot worse off than I am. Well, since we are not going to the gym today, we can finish shoveling the turnaround! Or not, hahaha!
DDR Update: I get constant D ratings. FYI, E is the lowest! The lesson mode is a big help and I think I am going to do it again to better recognize the patterns. I wish you could vary the tempo to make it harder, oh well.
Yeah, my liver is killing me… from exercise…
Man am I glad I have that snowblower! A huge driveway, 12″ of snow, no other people, and totally out of shape would otherwise be a recipe for certain death. As it is, it took over an hour even with the machine!
The last two bits of snow I got were light enough so I could just ignore it and let it melt away, but you can’t just drive off when there’s 12″ on the ground.