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Quite a range variance R5,000 on R20,000. US1,199 at today's rate would be R18,086 plus 14% VAT of R2,532 gives R20,618. So at R25,000 local buyers would be getting a very raw deal.

Pain cave is a harsh term. What I've learnt over the past decade using a VR trainer is that there are some really important things to lessen the boredom and ease the pain. A permanent or semi permanent set up so it's just get on and ride Fan and good ventilation Decent wired or wireless headphones Sound Internet access Media player Towels Hydration Everything within arm distance I use an old Cannondale with the exact geometry of my current road bike mounted permanently on my older Tacx Fortius VR trainer, specific trainer wheel with blue tyre. ANT+ cadence and speed paired to TTS 4 software over ANT+ dongle. I use my main server with a split screen service to the trainer with a mouse but to keyboard. 2nd screen is an older XP PC for entertainment with bluetooth headphones. Firefox for Youtube and AVS Media player for shows/movies. And a view of the Tokai mast to know where I'm going when allowed out again.

Surely it would have been cheaper and easier to buy a table for the extra water bottles you need while spinning rather than mount 4 on the wall like you have?

Not quite correct. Health check at Dischem/Clicks or where ever contribute to 10%-25% cash back on healthy supermarket buy. And is free for all medical aid members as paid by disco health. No brainer. Biokineticist contributes to cash back from Totalsports or Sportsman's Warehouse, not PnP or Woolies. Unless your financial planner pays for it it costs money. No so no brainer unless you spend lots at these 2 stores or need the points to get to gold. I prefer the free points rather than the paid points. As I already draw a cheque to disco for 5 figures every month.

It's all in the billing address. Use your actual street billing address for the 1st line of the billing address. Look up your SA post code, but add a trailing zero, to find the town and state in US that matches. Use that town and state together with your SA post code with trailing zero as town and post code. Works if your DNS server points to a US server which Unotelly or like would be doing already,

DSTV has an Easy View option at R29 a month for the free to air stuff with a few add ons like StupidSport Blitz and the religious channels. Which is more than the TV Licence fee.

From today for 3 weeks plus 2 days with only 3 mid season breaks: Best series on at the moment. By far.

The old way was meant to be killed off years ago. But the communications department didn't get it right. I suppose they need analogue for electioneering.

Not desperate enough for SABC to buy a decoder!

Don't laugh at me please. How do I get the free to air TV channels I pay my licence fee for without the DSTV subscription?

It's important to get used to going down. Some blue tabs can help with the punishing yourself on the way up too.

Apparently not. It would seem that Disco are such a bunch of ###ts for actually making us sweat a little AND fit in with their requirements. How unreasonable.

I think this has been answered for you a few times. Someone can hardly claim to be working out if they cannot get their HR above 80% for 30 mins a few times a week. If they have the watch then they should just use it to record 30 mins of activity at 80%. If they can't do that then maybe they should not have bought the watch expecting discovery to pay for it.

In principle should everyone qualify for freebies every week or should some effort be required? Four sessions of >30 minutes at >80% of age based MHR? Or One session of >90 minutes at >80% of age based MHR and Two sessions of >30 minutes at >80% of age based MHR? Targets are easier to achieved now than they were in 2015 when max was 150 points with a bonus of 50 if HR above an unknown mysterious percentage.

But as a timed event each rider would have received 3,000 points? My response had nothing to do with the allocation of points but more to the statement made quite often in this thread that the fitter one gets the harder it is to have a heart rate above 80%. Which is plainly rubbish. Although due to training and racing regimes few riders would choose to ride for 210+ minutes above 80%. Why not post some time trial data where the effect of the peloton is less pronounced?

You miss the point. The statement I quoted was that as one get fitter it's harder to achieve a high heart rate. Which is about as much nonsense as Jacob being sorry for the confusion around the Public Protector. But why would I expect that to be understood when all training seems to have been reduced to Vitality points. I despair.

Very interesting observation. But totally untrue. Do you really think elite athletes remain elite athletes pottering around at 70% of their heart rate during training and racing? I repeat Greg LeMond's most famous quote: It never gets easier, you just go faster.

Does anyone know how to manually sync for a device?

Or put your feet up and rest. Stay away from any exercise until you are in better condition and the AICAR and meldonium kick in.

About the only thing that came out of the Armstrong doping era was a pearl of wisdom from Carmichael. Recovery below 80% of actual heart rate max is an hour for an hour. So if you ride at 75% for 4 hours you only need 4 hours recovery. For every hour above 80% of actual heart rate max, not disco age based bollocks, you will need 8 hours recovery. So it's fair to say if you are pushing 172 bpm for 3 1/2 hours your recovery will be a day at least. But as you are not an elite trained athlete you will feel farked for more than a day. It's just your body saying I don't want to do that again soon. Realistically you should wait until your resting pulse returns to normal, less than 50 for most, before you go hard again.

Do they give more points if you run uphill? Maybe switch your run around and start at the bottom of the hill.

Unless your DEVICE is a Garmin loading it onto GC will not miraculously earn your Vitality Points. Whether you use tapiriik or not. I have not tested PolarPersonalTrainer without a Polar watch but we did this in the past.

But one still pays. And if you miss you don't get 100% back, ie, it's not free. So why pay to join then go swipe without working out? Just not logical.

AH, but there's the rub. Someone is making money from the swipers. Gym is not free unless they joined before 2009. So they swipe a few times to earn a free drink or 2 a week but PAY to be a member of a gym they are not using. And they pay to be in the Vitality programme.... Who is the fool? Certainly not Discovery.

Surely that IS THE POINT? If she just does what she did last week then she is not making progress and embracing the whole concept of getting and keeping fit. As Greg leMond said: It never gets easier, you just go faster. Bur then he also thinks one baller was the only doper who won the tour. PS: I do not have any understanding of how many steps 7,500 in terms of effort so I could be completely out of line,