Curves SMART

Last week I started doing my Curves workout with the Curves Smart tag. Here's the explanation of how it works from dietsinreview.com.

"Curves Smart tracks how well you’re working out, which muscles you’re using, how many calories you’re burning and whether or not you’re working as hard as you need to be, all with a swipe of a mini key card. After completing  a personal profile with a trained Curves staff member, your personal info gets loaded onto this small tag. You then take this key tag and swipe it before you hop onto any Curves equipment. It then recognizes your own data and fitness goals so that you can see just how well you’re working out. At the end of your workout, you receive a complete analysis of the muscle groups you worked and the calories you burned."

This is great for me because I always think I'm working out as hard as I should be, but it's easy to get in the zone and forget to push myself. Curves Smart reminds me constantly to step it up. Except when it's reminding me to to start easy or cool down at the end. My favorite part is finding out how many calories I burned during my workout each day. Since the computer knows who I am, how much I weigh, how tall I am, and how hard I worked on every single machine I can actually trust that number. I can't trust the calories burned number on a recumbent bike or on the Wii Fit. 

My first official weigh in at Curves is next week. I'm kind of excited to see what kind of progress I've made. I still don't have batteries for my scale at home. I forget about them every time I go to the store. It's probably because I'm afraid having easy access to a scale will make me more obsessive than I need to be.