Excuse me, I just Wooted!

Does anyone here use woot.com?  It's a pretty cool website that I discovered thanks to someone over at Fried Chicken.  Basically, they sell one highly discounted item per day.  Once it is sold out, that's it, you have to wait til the next day for the next item.  I stop by and peek at their offerings daily but until Friday had never actually purchased anything.

I popped in Friday and they were offering a Reebok heart rate monitor/calorie counter for $19.99.  It just so happens I've been looking for one for quite a while but a decent one is hard to find for less than $80, especially one with the calorie counter as well.  I've looked into the Polar brand as well as Nike and Timex but never a Reebok so I'm unaware of how it stands up to the other more established heart rate monitor brands.

I've recently gotten back into spinning twice a week and am often curious to know how many calories I burn in a 45 minute spin class.  I know that on an elliptical machine I burn around 600 in 45 minutes but I don't get my heart rate nearly as high on the elliptical as I do in a spin class.  Now, once my item ships in 5 days and school starts again in 2 weeks, I can see how many I am burning.  God I hope it's about 900+.

Last year, spinning 3-4 times a week, as well as a healthier diet helped me lose 30 pounds in a relatively short period of time.  But once I moved I stopped going to the gym until about 3 months ago when I started using the school gym on the days I was on campus.  Problem was, on my own I don't really work hard enough so being on the elliptical doesn't really help if I don't do what is necessary to get the old ticker pumpin.  So I decided to start getting to campus earlier so I could take a 7:30 a.m. spin class prior to my classes starting.

By the time I get out of spin, my shirt and hair are completely drenched and I am gassed but man do the results start showing quickly.  After about 2 weeks of being back in spin my shorts are hanging a bit lower on my hips and I have more energy during the day. 

Even though school is out for 2 weeks I plan on going to a spin class on Tuesday so that I can go ahead and get my books before the lines get out of hand.  While I am there I may also attend the football team's last open scrimmage of the fall.

Woot doesn't offer things I am necessarily interested in on a daily basis but I'm sure there are people out there who have no use for a heart rate monitor either.  Mostly they offer computers and other household electronics.  They also have links to other auction style websites offering similar deals.  Yesterday I found a 16G USB/Flash drive for $34.99 on one of their partner sites. 

So the moral of this story is shopping at woot.com can help you lose 30lbs.  I'm not receiving anything for this post either, just trying to share the savings.

Have a happy Sunday-ELI3