Garmin GPS by Devin Sherrington

One of my favorite pieces of fitness gear is my Garmin GPS watch.

Now I am a bit of a tech junkie but this one has to be the coolest things ever!. It has a huge number of options but the basic ones are the coolest.

You start the timer, run your route and the stop it when you're done. Then you plug it into your computer and see you top speed, average speed, top and average heart rate, how many hills you climbed, what your pace was, and exactly how far you ran. Plus you can look while your running and see how far you have come, your pace, etc.


But that's not the coolest part!

Once you've set up some of your courses (it shows you a GPS map of the course on the watch and the computer after you've run it) then you can choose trainer option and complete against yourself from the last time you ran, all in real time. You see you're in front, or behind your last pace, right down to the meter. No more remembering land marks and times.

This watch is about the coolest thing for exercisers, and it gets better. It also lets you do the same thing if you are biking too, so you can track all of the bike rides you been on.


The only possible draw back I can see is that I may give myself a heart attack trying to beat my old time and pace! So if you see me in Fall River running, looking like I'm about to die from the pace, that Garmin is the reason why!

I got mine at Costco. You can look at a page about it here, Garmin Forerunner.

Have fun tracking your runs!

Devin Sherrington is an award winning master personal trainer and owner of 360fit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He lives in Fletcher's Lake with his children Reign and Journey.

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Fat Burning Zone Devin Sherrington

I get asked about people's fat burning zone every week. And every time I have to say, it doesn't exist.

I know you've seen the charts on machines. Your fat burning zone, your cardio zone. Companies love to put that stuff on there. Of course it doesn't work like that.

You see your body burns calories of fat and carbs all the time, just at differing rates. When you're at about 50 percent of your max heart rate then you burn about 50 percent fat calories and 50 percent carb calories. As your heart rate increase (when you work harder) then you burn percentage wise less calories of fat and more of carbs. That's where the myth of fat burning zone comes from.

But it also breaks down too. If you workout in that "fat burning zone" for half an hour and much harder for half a hour, you will burn way more calories when you work harder. Sure percentage wise you might burn more carbs, but you will have burned so many more calories overall that you will burn many more fat calories working hard than going slower.

That's why it's best not to dog it. When you work out, bust your butt! You'll get in better cardio shape and you'll burn more fat too.

Devin Sherrington is a master personal trainer and owner of 360fit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He lives in Fletcher's Lake with his children Reign and Journey. 

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360fit - New Science: Brief and Fast the Way to go

Ever think you don't have the time to workout? Only have half an hour? That's fine. 20 Minutes of workout is enough if you push it hard.

I often tell people there are two ways to workout. Work slowly and take an hour, or put the hammer down and spend 20 minutes. The choice is up to you. But the 20 minute workout will burn a lot more fat.

That's because when you work hard and fast, with little breaks between sets you get the best of both worlds. You get all the positives of workout with weights or doing resistance training, along with the cardio aspect of working out.

When you workout like this you will feel like you're doing hard cardio. It's not an easy workout, but it will get you results and fast.

The best way to set up a workout like this is to pick four to six exercises which cover all the major muscles in the body and do them back to back with as few breaks as possible until the 20 minutes are up.

A good example would be pushups, squats, crunches, DB rows. These will cover most all the muscles in your body. Ten reps of each doesn't sound like much but it will tire you out in 20 minutes.

Give the 20 minute workout a try and see how you like it. It'll save you time and get you in great shape, all at once.


-Devin Sherrington
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