Entering Crossfit Exercises into My Fitness Pal

jtexidor

Hello, I've just recently become an avid user of My Fitness Pal and I love it. I've lost 12lbs since i've started and looking forward to losing about 25 more. :-)

One problem I have encountered is entering in Crossfit workouts into My Fitness Pal. I've been entering in Circuit training but don't know if that is gonna give me an accurate calorie burn from day to day based on what we do in the box.

I'm getting great results tracking my calories and other nutritional information but would like to get more accurate with tracking my exercise. I'm currently going to Crossfit 5 times a week and a solid diet...minus my mishaps but still better than I've ever eaten in my life.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone else came across this issue and have any tips for me.

Thank you

Johnathan

CipherZero

I'm doing the starting strength program and simply don't bother adding the calories from it. The cardio calorie burn for weight lifting is going to be minimal from my experience.

samanthabaker222

is it better to add each exercise individually? ( deadlift, bench press ) so breakdown what ever the WOD is - of course it would take forever but you could track how much weight you can do each exercise at.

farfromthetree

I think wearing a heart rate monitor is the best way to find your individual calorie burn. I just log 200 calories

PRMinx

You can log it as cross training or calisthenics, but it is just an estimate. I wore an HRM for a year for the whole hour workout. I'm 5'4, 136 and was clocking in at 350 per workout, 400 if it's a hero WOD or something.

Honestly, if you are seeing results than what you are doing now is working. I wouldn't get overly concerned about it.