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Monday, July 31, 2006

 

Walking take 100

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking to the store and lugging back groceries
Duration: ~30 minutes

Radagast's totals: 124/200, $540.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 128/200, $50.00

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Friday, July 28, 2006

 

Gardening take 15

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Weeding, trimming, and mowing.
Duration: 1 1/4 hours
Notes: Working as the sun set helped beat the heat.

Radagast's totals: 123/200, $537.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 127/200, $47.50

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Walking take 99

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~60 minutes

Radagast's totals: 122/200, $532.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 126/200, $42.50

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Monday, July 24, 2006

 

Rearranging furniture take 2

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Moving furniture
Duration: ~45 minutes

Radagast's totals: 121/200, $527.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 125/200, $37.50

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Friday, July 21, 2006

 

Walking take 98

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking (and lugging back groceries)
Duration: ~20 minutes

Radagast's totals: 120/200, $525.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 125/200, $37.50

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

 

Body Basics take 11

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Kathy Smith's Body Basics video
Portions of tape: warmup, arms, aerobics, abs, legs, butt, cooldown (full tape)
Duration: ~70 minutes
Notes: We haven't done this tape for months, but were impressed that we could do the entire workout (especially since last time we had a large layover we could only do half the tape). We were especially surprised that we weren't too terribly winded after the aerobics segment.

This was a good distraction from the frustrations of remodeling, though we suspect a kickboxing video would have fit our mood better.

Radagast's totals: 119/200, $522.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 124/200, $35.00

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

 

Walking take 97

Who: Radagast's SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~30 minutes

Radagast's totals: 118/200, $517.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 123/200, $30.00

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Friday, July 14, 2006

 

Walking take 96

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 118/200, $517.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 122/200, $27.50

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Weightlifting take 5

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Lifting weights
Duration: ~1 1/2 hours
Notes: The air conditioning was not working in the gym while we were there; the temperature inside was probably more than 90 degrees. This made for a very exhausting workout.

Radagast's totals: 117/200, $515.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 121/200, $25.00

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

 

Walking take 95

Who: Radagast's SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 116/200, $510.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 120/200, $20.00

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Gardening take 14

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Weeding
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 116/200, $510.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 119/200, $17.50

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

 

Walking take 94

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking to the store and lugging back groceries (Radagast); walking (Radagast's SO)
Duration: ~20 minutes for Radagast; ~40 minutes for Radagast's SO

Radagast's totals: 115/200, $507.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 119/200, $17.50

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Monday, July 10, 2006

 

Walking take 93

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 114/200, $505.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 118/200, $15.00

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Weightlifting take 4

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Lifting weights
Duration: ~1 1/4 hours

Radagast's totals: 113/200, $502.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 117/200, $12.50

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Sunday, July 09, 2006

 

RGYM performing better than expected – earnings forecast increased by 33%!

[Cross-posted on Rhosgobel; for more background see these three posts.]

In June of 2005, Radagast and SO started Rhosgobel's Gym (RGYM), a website dedicated to tracking their production of exercise units. In January of 2006 RGYM implemented a new manufacturing process, with initial predicted production of 300 units of exercise in the fiscal year (split evenly between Radagast and Radagast's SO). Based on January pricing of the units, RGYM anticipated earnings between $750 and $1,500 for the fiscal year (earnings, unfortunately, not in thousands).

Analysts were mixed as to whether RGYM could meet these aggressive goals, but through an aggressive marketing campaign, active marketplace analysis, and synergistic employee motivation plans, RGYM is proud to announce that in the first six months of 2006 it produced 213 units of exercise, for a total mid-year earnings of more than $900. RGYM exceeded its mid-year expectations by more than 40%.

As a result of this outstanding performance, RGYM is adjusting its annual production goal to 400 units of exercise (split evenly between Radagast and SO); earnings estimates have been proportionally raised as well.

The highest income-producing exercise class for RGYM in the first two quarters of 2006 was walking, with a total of more than 125 units produced. Unfortunately, due to the market saturation of walking-type exercises (and relatively low heart-rate increase per unit of walking produced), RGYM is revising the predicted earnings-per-unit for walking-type exercises. Specifically, walking for more than 40 minutes will be rebranded to walking for more than 30 minutes, and will be priced at $2.50 instead of $5. While this change will reduce our per-unit income, we anticipate that the reduction in per-unit walking amount should increase our exposure in the coveted low-duration walking market while concurrently reducing our manufacturing cost. Our signature walking to the store (and lugging back groceries) product will still retain its $2.50 price.

Additionally, RGYM is actively responding to current marketplace demand for walking by introducing a new product: walking for more than 60 minutes. This product will maintain the $5 price point of the (now discontinued) 40 minute walking product, and is excepted to attract the walking addict niche market.

While RGYM has historically produced products in the video and light aerobic fitness market, RGYM is now expanding its product line to enter the lucrative weightlifting market. Late in the second quarter RGYM introduced their initial weightlifting product: weightlifting for more than 30 minutes, at an introductory price of $5. The ratio of health gains to manufacturing cost make this product an exciting new addition to the RGYM line, and RGYM expects to see solid gains as a result of this product in the second half of the fiscal year.

RGYM's expenses to date have been well within predictions for the fiscal year. Radagast's SO incurred an initial employee compensation expense of $505 in the first quarter; while this expenditure required deficit spending, it was expected to reduce overall compensation expenses by taking advantage of temporary market fluctuations. As a result, Radagast's SO's cash balance was negative for much of the first two quarters. However, Radagast's SO is forecast to have a positive cash balance early in the third quarter of 2006. Radagast has not had any employee compensation expenses, and thus had a large positive cash balance at the end of the second quarter.

RGYM:

RGYM is a world-class provider of exercise unit production tracking for Radagast and SO. RGYM was founded by Radagast and SO, and currently “employs” two people. More information on RGYM's innovative product line, including daily updates on production, can be found at http://rhosgobelgym.blogspot.com.

Translation from business-speak:

My SO and I thought that it would be a blast to write our mid-year exercise report as a mock business press release; we hope you've enjoyed it. Now, to summarize the above in human-readable terms:

1) We are upping our annual exercise goal to 200 bouts of exercise per person per year (up from 150 originally). Considering that we both exceeded 100 bouts in the first six months of the year, this should be attainable.

2) We are slightly revising our earnings per exercise type; here is the updated list (see the original list here):

$5 exercise:
$2.50 exercise:
So far we've found this reward scheme to be very motivating; for instance, we'll often decide to walk somewhere so we can get our exercise income.

[Disclaimer: Neither of us is in business, so please forgive anything that doesn't sound right.]

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Saturday, July 08, 2006

 

Gardening take 13

Who: Radagast's SO
Exercise type: Trimming, weeding
Duration: ~45 minutes

Radagast's totals: 112/150, $497.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 116/150, $7.50

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Walking take 92

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking to the store (and lugging back groceries)
Duration: ~25 minutes

Radagast's totals: 112/150, $497.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 115/150, $5.00

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

 

Walking take 91

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 111/150, $495.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 114/150, $2.50

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Weightlifting take 3

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Lifting weights
Duration: ~1 1/4 hours
Notes: We tried increasing the weight for some of the exercises we were able to do three sets of last time.

Radagast's totals: 110/150, $490.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 113/150, -$2.50

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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

 

Anime Expo take 5

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Attending Anime Expo 2006
Duration: ~7 hours total, some of it walking/standing while lugging around a backpack.
Notes: Our last time (until next year).

Radagast's totals: 109/150, $485.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 112/150, -$7.50

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Monday, July 03, 2006

 

Anime Expo take 4

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Attending Anime Expo 2006
Duration: ~9 hours total, most of it walking/standing while lugging around a backpack.
Notes: It takes a long time to hike around the entire exhibit hall; we only just finished the "trail" about midday today (after having worked on it for the past two days).

Radagast's totals: 108/150, $480.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 111/150, -$12.50

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Sunday, July 02, 2006

 

Anime Expo take 3

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Attending Anime Expo 2006
Duration: ~4 hours total, most of it walking/standing while lugging around a backpack.
Notes: Hiking around the exhibit hall (dealer room) is a great way to see a wide variety of anime merchandise!

Radagast's totals: 107/150, $475.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 110/150, -$17.50

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Saturday, July 01, 2006

 

Anime Expo take 2

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Attending Anime Expo 2006
Duration: 9 1/2 hours total, some of it (at least a couple of hours) walking/standing while lugging around a backpack. However, much of the day was spent spent waiting in line to see CLAMP.
Notes: Exercise has (almost never) been so much fun!

Radagast's totals: 106/150, $470.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 109/150, -$22.50

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