So what do I *actually* burn at my fitness class?

So I go to this kinda circuits class for an hour twice a week. You have a 5-10 min stretch and mobility drills and a 5 min jog/stretch cooldown. In between, you have intervals of intense effort with various movements with dumbbells/barbells (squats, presses, deadlifts), calisthenics, bodyweight exercises, box jumps, all sorts. Recoveries are short, You may have an extra minute or two as a new circuit is explained to you. Every week is different.

So CC says circuit training is about 556 cals/hour. I count my classes as about 40 min of circuits and 20 min of stretching. Does this sound about right to you? Am I overestimating my burn?

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Melanoma May Return Years Later in Some

But study also found those patients were less likely to die than those with early recurrence

By Robert Preidt

HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that melanoma can recur decades after initial treatment in roughly 9 percent of patients.

The findings show that people who have had melanoma require lifelong follow-up, the study authors said.

The investigators looked at over 4,700 melanoma patients and found that recurrence occurred in 408 patients who had been disease-free for 10 or more years. The recurrence rates were nearly 7 percent after 15 years and 11 percent after 25 years, according to the study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

But the researchers also found that patients whose melanoma recurred 10 or more years later were less likely to die than those whose melanoma recurred within three years of treatment. Those with late recurrence were about 40 percent less likely to die of melanoma than those with early recurrence, and those with late recurrence also had a better overall survival rate.

Patients whose melanoma did not come back until at least 10 years after treatment were younger on average than those with early recurrence (age 41 versus 51).

Also, patients with a later recurrence tended to have had an original melanoma with less dangerous characteristics, the researchers noted. They also found that men accounted for 66 percent of patients with early recurrence, compared with 57 percent of those with late recurrence.

"For patients with melanoma, survival beyond 10 years without a recurrence has been considered nearly synonymous with a cure," lead investigator Dr. Mark Faries, a professor of surgery at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., said in a journal news release. "However, most studies do not follow-up patients longer than 10 years. Our study found that late melanoma recurrence is not rare and that it occurs more frequently in certain patient groups," he noted.

"It appears the risk of melanoma recurrence is never completely gone," Faries said. "One change that should result from our study is that people need to be followed-up for life with a physician after a diagnosis of melanoma," he pointed out.

"Fortunately, the vast majority of melanoma patients who remain disease-free longer than 10 years will not have a recurrence," Faries added. "However, patients should be aware that persistent or unexplained symptoms anywhere in the body might indicate a recurrence of their melanoma, and they should return to their physician to make sure the symptoms are not related."

Nearly 76,700 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society.

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chest pain

So, I've been having some chest pains for the last two weeks. No, I can not go to the doctor, my mother has told me she can't afford it. She also said that it's probably just growing pains, and we agree that the push ups I have to go in gymnastics probably play into it. However, the answers in this forum make chest pains seem very dangerous. What do they mean?

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starting yet again

Deciding to give recovery a go again....finally starting to see it isnt as easy as i thought it would be....day 1 of no exercise. and eatting normal amounts of food...currently weigh 116 at 5"6 bmi of around 18.7....i think for me my biggest fear is people i know saying i. gained a lot of weight cause im always the "thin one" even my fiance will be out and see a woman who is alittle bigger and say something about her...which really discourages me buti know in the end its not people around me but my own thoughts that i cant get past.im 28. years old and havent been able to have anychildren for the past three years dueto my over excerising and under eatting...ive come along way. since i first started recovery back in september but am no where near recovered having fallen off the wagon multipe times.Heres to hoping this time i can really change really love my body for me and not the size i fit into.

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need to increase my calories?

Im finding it difficult to eat 1500 calories of healthy food without eating too much fat or carbs? Any suggestions of some high calorie, good, healthy food?

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Losing weight while training for half marathon

Hi,

I'm 16, 5'3.5 and weigh about 125-126. I know that this is a completely healthy weight but I'd like to lose 5-10 pounds. I'm training for a half marathon in October and I'm training three days a week. Tuesday easy run  of 4 miles, Thursday, speedwork 4 miles and Sunday long run. My miles per week increases by 10% every week. My longest distance yet is 7 miles. On the other days, I do NROLFW. I'm in stage 3 and I do that three days a week, usually lasting around 35-40 minutes. So I have one rest day a week.  It used to be very hard for me to lose weight. I used to eat between 1500-1600 calories a day and the scale did not budge. But I did some research and found that it's important to eat more to up your metabolism. So instead of following what CC says as a target calorie goal(which was a crazy low number of 1200, ugh) I used this calculator http://www.runnersworld.com/tools/daily-calories-calculator. It says that I burn about 2400 calories a day. So in order for me to lose a pound a week I should eat 1900 calories. Does this sound accurate for me? Should I be eating more or less? 

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Marital Spats May Decline as Couples Age

Over time, partners realize their differences won't change, so they try to defuse conflict, study says

By Robert Preidt

HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- One of the benefits of a long marriage may be fewer arguments as the years go by, a new study finds.

Researchers at San Francisco State University report that as married couples grow older, they become more likely to handle disagreements by simply changing the subject.

The findings are in keeping with prior research showing that as people age, they avoid conflict in favor of more positive experiences, to try to make the best of their remaining years.

The new study included 127 long-time married couples in middle or old age who were followed for 13 years. They were videotaped during 15-minute talks centered on contentious topics ranging from housework to finances.

The researchers wanted to see if the couples' use of a common and harmful type of communication -- called the demand-withdraw pattern -- changed as they aged. In this pattern, one partner blames or pressures the other for change, while the other partner tries to avoid talking about the problem and withdraws from the discussion.

This type of avoidance generally is believed to cause damage to relationships because it prevents conflict resolution, and this may be particularly true for younger couples who may be dealing with issues that are newer to them.

Most aspects of demand-withdraw communication remained steady over time among the couples in the study, the researchers said, but with age both partners became more prone to changing the subject or diverting attention away from the argument.

The researchers reasoned that older couples have already had decades to voice their disagreements, so avoidance may be a way for them to move the conversation away from "toxic" areas and toward something more pleasant.

The age of the partners in a marriage appears to drive this shift in communication, but the change might also be influenced by the length of the relationship.

"It may not be an either/or question. It may be that both age and marital duration play a role in increased avoidance," study author Sarah Holley, an assistant professor of psychology and director of the university's Relationships, Emotion and Health Lab, said in a university news release.

In order to learn more about these influences, Holley hopes to compare older couples in long-term marriages with older newlywed couples.

Holley said demand-withdraw communication occurs in all kinds of couples. She compared heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples in a 2010 study and found "strong support for the idea that the partner who desires more change ... will be much more likely to occupy the demanding role, whereas the partner who desires less change -- and therefore may benefit from maintaining the status quo -- will be more likely to occupy the withdrawing role."

The study was published online July 1 in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

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