This is mostly for me as I find this information useful and I keep having to calculate it. I'll update it as the weeks pass.
I started exercising on Friday, July 3rd, so the week starts on a Friday and ends the following Thursday.
June 30th: Joined 24 Hour Fitness
October 7th: Joined Las Vegas Athletic Club
November 7th: Upgraded 24HF to Super Sport
July 3rd: Started
July 3rd-August 1st: Gym, cardio and weights
August 2nd-August 19th: Slim-in-6 at home, no gym
September 1st-present: Gym group classes
Week 1: July 3-9
Week 2: July 10-16
Week 3: July 17-23
Week 4: July 24-30
Week 5: July 31-August 6
Week 6: August 7-13
Week 7: August 14-20
Week 8: August 21-27
Week 9: August 28-September 3
Week 10: September 4-10
Week 11: September 11-17
Week 12: September 18-24
Week 13: September 25-October 1
Week 14: October 2-8
Week 15: October 9-15
Week 16: October 16-22
Week 17: October 23-29
Week 18: October 30-November 5
Week 19: November 6-12
Week 20: November November 13-19
Week 21: November 20-November 26
Week 22: November 27-December 3
Week 23: December 4-December 10
Week 24: December 11-December 17
Week 25: December 18-December 24
Week 26: December 25-December 31st
------HALF YEAR MARK-----------------
Sunday, October 18, 2009
24 Hour Fitness (24HF) vs. Las Vegas Athletic Club (LVAC).
Edit 12/20/09: Haven't been to LVAC in a couple of weeks. 24HF has provided me with more of a support structure while LVAC is more of a go, train, leave kind of place. There's a handful of instructors there that I absolutely adore but the pull of 24HF has been too strong. If I had to choose right now, I'd choose 24HF, hands down.
Just like some people have two sets of families, I have two gyms. 24HF is mostly my Monday-Thursday gym and Las Vegas Athletic Club is my Friday-Sunday gym. I joined 24HF first back on July 3rd and I just joined LVAC last week.
My most favorite class instructor is at 24HF so that gym will always have a place in my heart while I live in Vegas. LVAC has over three times the classes, more variety, and classes earlier and later. Since I don't do Yoga or cycling and I'm not interested in the shadow boxing class, there's only ONE class I can take Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 24HF, so the variety and sheer amount of classes at LVAC is refreshing.
While 24HF has my favorite instructor, LVAC has my favorite class - BodyCombat, a class based on martial arts.
Another thing I like about LVAC is that I get a free training session a month. And I like my LVAC trainer while I really didn't connect with my 24HF trainer (had four sessions as part of my membership). At LVAC I also have Raquetball court use (which I haven't used yet).
A huge thing for 24HF is that it's closer to my house. LVAC is double the distance. But we're talking 5 vs 10 minutes, not something like 30 mins vs an hour. 24HF is 1.5 miles away, while LVAC is 3.1 miles away (hardly a deal-breaker). But for something that's 1.5 miles away it's more spur-of-the-moment, I-feel-like-working-out-right-now thing.
24HF has a more intimate athmosphere, while LVAC is party central, especially the Zumba classes. There's maybe like 50 people in a huge room exercising, and everyone's moving more or less in sync. It's like being in a dance club with the lights on and a leader. 24HF has a more intimate athmosphere with about 10-20 people per class.
The instructors themselves have for the most part all been great. They are very personable and friendly.
Cost:
24HF: $575 for 36 months prepaid, $15.97 a month. Then it's $80 a year to renew, or $6.67 a month. They CAN raise the rate by a max of 8% a year, which comes out to an extra $6.40 a year starting the second year, but the rate is so low after 10 years it's STILL less than the LVAC renew rate. And they say they haven't raised it in years and years and have no plans to, it's more of a cover your bases disclosure.
LVAC: $806 for 40 months prepaid, $20.15 a month. $172 per year for life to renew, $14.33 a month. This includes Racquetball use and a personal training session a month.
So at first it's $36.12, and then it's $26.82 a month for both. That includes personal training, locations for both gyms, pools, hundreds of classes a week at all hours, and raquetball. It's less than Gold's Gym by itself. It's a tremendous value.
Just like some people have two sets of families, I have two gyms. 24HF is mostly my Monday-Thursday gym and Las Vegas Athletic Club is my Friday-Sunday gym. I joined 24HF first back on July 3rd and I just joined LVAC last week.
My most favorite class instructor is at 24HF so that gym will always have a place in my heart while I live in Vegas. LVAC has over three times the classes, more variety, and classes earlier and later. Since I don't do Yoga or cycling and I'm not interested in the shadow boxing class, there's only ONE class I can take Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 24HF, so the variety and sheer amount of classes at LVAC is refreshing.
While 24HF has my favorite instructor, LVAC has my favorite class - BodyCombat, a class based on martial arts.
Another thing I like about LVAC is that I get a free training session a month. And I like my LVAC trainer while I really didn't connect with my 24HF trainer (had four sessions as part of my membership). At LVAC I also have Raquetball court use (which I haven't used yet).
A huge thing for 24HF is that it's closer to my house. LVAC is double the distance. But we're talking 5 vs 10 minutes, not something like 30 mins vs an hour. 24HF is 1.5 miles away, while LVAC is 3.1 miles away (hardly a deal-breaker). But for something that's 1.5 miles away it's more spur-of-the-moment, I-feel-like-working-out-right-now thing.
24HF has a more intimate athmosphere, while LVAC is party central, especially the Zumba classes. There's maybe like 50 people in a huge room exercising, and everyone's moving more or less in sync. It's like being in a dance club with the lights on and a leader. 24HF has a more intimate athmosphere with about 10-20 people per class.
The instructors themselves have for the most part all been great. They are very personable and friendly.
Cost:
24HF: $575 for 36 months prepaid, $15.97 a month. Then it's $80 a year to renew, or $6.67 a month. They CAN raise the rate by a max of 8% a year, which comes out to an extra $6.40 a year starting the second year, but the rate is so low after 10 years it's STILL less than the LVAC renew rate. And they say they haven't raised it in years and years and have no plans to, it's more of a cover your bases disclosure.
LVAC: $806 for 40 months prepaid, $20.15 a month. $172 per year for life to renew, $14.33 a month. This includes Racquetball use and a personal training session a month.
So at first it's $36.12, and then it's $26.82 a month for both. That includes personal training, locations for both gyms, pools, hundreds of classes a week at all hours, and raquetball. It's less than Gold's Gym by itself. It's a tremendous value.
Favorite classes.
LVAC - Las Vegas Athletic Club
24HF - 24 Hour Fitness
BodyCombat - AWESOME class, and my favorite. Dethroned Zumba as favorite class, which is saying a lot. I have a black belt in Songahm Taekwondo so this class is right up my alley, with punches, kicks, jumps, and blocks. Total blast.
Zumba - Second favorite class. Tons of fun. It's more like a party than a fitness class, more so at LVAC. Hot Latin music, hot men, dancing for an hour... this is in the name of health, right?
24Lift - at 24HF, it's a weightlifting class. Before 24Lift, I didn't know there was such a thing as a weightlifting -class-.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN...
Swimming - not for me at the moment. Great for toning, and great if you can't move that well on land because of weight, but in 54 minutes I burned 263 calories, and I normally burn about 82 calories at rest in those 54 minutes, so all I got by exercising in the pool for 54 minutes was a net burn of 181 calories.
Zumba or BodyCombat... about 770 calories - let's say 91 calories for an estimated 60 minutes for BodyCombat or 106 calories for an estimated 70 minutes, so that's a net caloric burn of 664-679. 664 or 181... hmm...
My goal is to lose weight, and I get toning with the weights classes. So for me right now swimming is not a good fit.
I also really enjoyed the swimming instruction, but I'm stretched thin as it is, and it's something I'm not going to take up at this point.
So after trying it out three and a half hours in a week, I'm retiring my bathing suit.
24HF - 24 Hour Fitness
BodyCombat - AWESOME class, and my favorite. Dethroned Zumba as favorite class, which is saying a lot. I have a black belt in Songahm Taekwondo so this class is right up my alley, with punches, kicks, jumps, and blocks. Total blast.
Zumba - Second favorite class. Tons of fun. It's more like a party than a fitness class, more so at LVAC. Hot Latin music, hot men, dancing for an hour... this is in the name of health, right?
24Lift - at 24HF, it's a weightlifting class. Before 24Lift, I didn't know there was such a thing as a weightlifting -class-.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN...
Swimming - not for me at the moment. Great for toning, and great if you can't move that well on land because of weight, but in 54 minutes I burned 263 calories, and I normally burn about 82 calories at rest in those 54 minutes, so all I got by exercising in the pool for 54 minutes was a net burn of 181 calories.
Zumba or BodyCombat... about 770 calories - let's say 91 calories for an estimated 60 minutes for BodyCombat or 106 calories for an estimated 70 minutes, so that's a net caloric burn of 664-679. 664 or 181... hmm...
My goal is to lose weight, and I get toning with the weights classes. So for me right now swimming is not a good fit.
I also really enjoyed the swimming instruction, but I'm stretched thin as it is, and it's something I'm not going to take up at this point.
So after trying it out three and a half hours in a week, I'm retiring my bathing suit.
October 19th-25th, 2009
Lowest weight achieved this week: 186lbs
Days exercising = 16 weeks + 3 days = 115 days
Pounds lost: Total: 29. Per day: 0.25. Per week: 1.75.
Base calories burned ...
per day - 2162 (modified at end of the week for the lowest weight attained that week)
week - 15134
minute - 1.51
FOOD:
Monday: 1382
Tuesday: 1096
Wednesday: 1473
Thursday: 1550
Friday: 1270
Saturday: 1478
Sunday: 1428
Total: 9677, Average 1384 calories a day.
EXERCISE:
Monday: 24S.E.T., 59 mins, 501 cals, 55% fat, 149/79, 123/65
Monday: BodyCombat, 57 mins, 552 cals, 50% fat, 150/79, 131/69
Tuesday: 9a Turbo Kick, 59 minutes, 719 calories, 40% fat, 164/87, 149/79
Tuesday: 10a 24Pilates Fusion, 63 minutes, 425 calories, 60% fat, 144/76, 112/59
Wednesday: 24Lift,51/473/50, 159/84 129/68
Wednesday: Step Jam 24, 30/270/50, 149/79 129/68
Wednesday: Zumba, 55/613/45, 161/85 142/75
Wednesday: BodyCombat, 57/573/50, 150/79 134/71
Thursday: 24Lift, 53/383/60, 137/72, 114/60
Thursday: Zumba, 57/643/45, 162/86, 142/75
Thursday: Turbo Kickbox, 57/455/60. 135/71, 120/63
Total minutes: 598 minutes (5 hours, 58 minutes).
Total gross calories burned: 5607
Total net calories burned: 5607 - (598*1.51) = 5607 - 903 = 4704
Caloric deficit = calories burned at rest + net calories burned through exercise - Food consumed.
15134 + 4704 - 9677 = 10161
Goal = 10,000 calories
Days exercising = 16 weeks + 3 days = 115 days
Pounds lost: Total: 29. Per day: 0.25. Per week: 1.75.
Base calories burned ...
per day - 2162 (modified at end of the week for the lowest weight attained that week)
week - 15134
minute - 1.51
FOOD:
Monday: 1382
Tuesday: 1096
Wednesday: 1473
Thursday: 1550
Friday: 1270
Saturday: 1478
Sunday: 1428
Total: 9677, Average 1384 calories a day.
EXERCISE:
Monday: 24S.E.T., 59 mins, 501 cals, 55% fat, 149/79, 123/65
Monday: BodyCombat, 57 mins, 552 cals, 50% fat, 150/79, 131/69
Tuesday: 9a Turbo Kick, 59 minutes, 719 calories, 40% fat, 164/87, 149/79
Tuesday: 10a 24Pilates Fusion, 63 minutes, 425 calories, 60% fat, 144/76, 112/59
Wednesday: 24Lift,51/473/50, 159/84 129/68
Wednesday: Step Jam 24, 30/270/50, 149/79 129/68
Wednesday: Zumba, 55/613/45, 161/85 142/75
Wednesday: BodyCombat, 57/573/50, 150/79 134/71
Thursday: 24Lift, 53/383/60, 137/72, 114/60
Thursday: Zumba, 57/643/45, 162/86, 142/75
Thursday: Turbo Kickbox, 57/455/60. 135/71, 120/63
Total minutes: 598 minutes (5 hours, 58 minutes).
Total gross calories burned: 5607
Total net calories burned: 5607 - (598*1.51) = 5607 - 903 = 4704
Caloric deficit = calories burned at rest + net calories burned through exercise - Food consumed.
15134 + 4704 - 9677 = 10161
Goal = 10,000 calories
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