We had a near-blizzard in Chicago today. Most of the day the view from my windows here in the Steel Tower was Chicago’s famous horizontal snow. I did not go out of course but I did not do any treadmill walking or stair climbing. I got all absorbed in working again; I edited a three-chapter section of my book and consider it DONE, pending input from trusted editor friends. But of course no way would I not do my swings! You bet I got 500 kettlebell swings in today! I’m over the half-way mark! No slacking off in the Kettlebell Swings Challenge! I had a bit of an odd cramp in my forearm around in the 400s range. Seemed like an odd place. Maybe I was gripping too firmly. I want to hit 6000 tomorrow!!! Feel I’ve picked up momentum!
My calorie burn for yesterday was 2331. Today’s burn will be several hundred less! Probably in the 1700s. I saw an article today about some amazing breakthrough thinking from some French scientist or something. He says that calorie readouts are “lying” to us. If a device says we’ve burned 180 calories from a one-hour workout, we’re failing to take into account that we would have burned 60 calories just sitting around. So the workout actually burned 120 calories from the increase of activity.
I was a Liberal Arts major and I knew this already. How did this guy get into an international news wire service?
