thanks for sharing & going thru the trouble of testing yourself.
couple of things.
i think you need to perform the treadmill test "cold" (like on a different day) instead of only allowing 10 min rest between the 1st take and the 2nd take. this would put both types of walking on even footage in terms of your body being warmed up. this would result in 2 better measures of your max heart rate for the treadmill, and also the calories burned on the treadmill.
i've measured a cardio workout 2 ways: (1) starting out totally cold (2) clearing my HRM data and then doing the same workout after having done a workout right before it. the workouts i did this with were 10 minute solution Carb Burner (Michelle Dozois) and the Madeleine Lewis Gaiam walking workout for 30 min & maybe a tamilee cardio workout. my HRM does not have a calories burned measurement. .
i noticed that toward the 20-25 minute mark of having done a workout, that's when my body is truly warmed up. and it takes at least that long for my body to get into a 60-70% "of anaerobic threshold" zone (i.e., the fat burning zone). i have pretty fast recovery since originally i started out as a runner, meaning at the 20-25 min mark of a warm-up, in minute # 26, my HR could quickly go below 50%.
however, a long time ago when i was not as conditioned, i'd be literally gasping for breath if i charged right in and didn't adequately warm up, and i could feel my chest wanting to explode. this was in the first 5 minutes, and even though i didn't own a HRM, i'm guessing my perceived exertion was somewhere at a 9 out of 10 (unable to talk, wanting to barf).
i've measured 3 leslie indoor miles (using her pre-Walk Slim era workouts like walk & kick) vs. brisk walking outside wearing my HRM. i've also worn it doing 3 miles on a treadmill. i noticed that treadmill and outdoor walking is more intense than an indoor leslie walk. in a majority of the instances, i could not get my HR into the 60-70% zone doing a leslie walk "as is". although i do own a ton of Leslies. in general, her Walk Slim's are more intense for me and i get a better bang out of it HR-wise.
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Last edited by bzar; 06-28-09 at 01:45 PM.
Reason: edited the tamilee reference :)
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