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Can you help me figure out how many calories I just burned?

starryphoenix
starryphoenix Posts: 381 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
166 lbs
5'3
25
500 squats in 45 minutes
My heart rate was definitely above 150
Between every 100 I took a 1 minute break.
I was sweating a lot when I finished.

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  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    enter in the database as calistenics
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Go to the exercise tab here at MFP, select Cardiovascular, scroll through the drop down menu of database exercises and select Calisthenics, vigorous effort, and enter the amount of time. Then subtract a little off the burn they give you, since MFP is notorious for overestimating calorie burns.

    Just squats, no other exercises with them?
  • starryphoenix
    starryphoenix Posts: 381 Member
    Nope, just squats. I was going to try to do 5000, but once I started I realized I was insane so I just did 500.
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
    liahna wrote: »
    Nope, just squats. I was going to try to do 5000, but once I started I realized I was insane so I just did 500.

    Erm. Why?

    I mean, I like squats. But 5000?

  • starryphoenix
    starryphoenix Posts: 381 Member
    nz_deevaa wrote: »
    liahna wrote: »
    Nope, just squats. I was going to try to do 5000, but once I started I realized I was insane so I just did 500.

    Erm. Why?

    I mean, I like squats. But 5000?

    It just seemed like a good idea at the time.
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
    liahna wrote: »
    nz_deevaa wrote: »
    liahna wrote: »
    Nope, just squats. I was going to try to do 5000, but once I started I realized I was insane so I just did 500.

    Erm. Why?

    I mean, I like squats. But 5000?

    It just seemed like a good idea at the time.

    *looks about*
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    liahna wrote: »
    166 lbs
    5'3
    25
    500 squats in 45 minutes

    166 lbs -> 75kg
    A squat is kind of like a stair -> 500 squats -> 500 stairs -> ~115m in elevation change.
    1 cal per 100kg per 1 metre climbed...

    1 * .75 * 115 -> ~90 calories burned

  • zipa78
    zipa78 Posts: 354 Member
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    liahna wrote: »
    166 lbs
    5'3
    25
    500 squats in 45 minutes

    166 lbs -> 75kg
    A squat is kind of like a stair -> 500 squats -> 500 stairs -> ~115m in elevation change.
    1 cal per 100kg per 1 metre climbed...

    1 * .75 * 115 -> ~90 calories burned

    Well, except that it is nothing like a stair. Or then I'd really like to see a video of you climbing up a flight of stairs... :smile:
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Its "like a stair" in that you're moving a similar mass in a similar direction.

    Which muscles you're activating is not the important bit - what matters is mass and distance.
  • starryphoenix
    starryphoenix Posts: 381 Member
    Thank you all for your help. :smile:
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    nz_deevaa wrote: »
    liahna wrote: »
    nz_deevaa wrote: »
    liahna wrote: »
    Nope, just squats. I was going to try to do 5000, but once I started I realized I was insane so I just did 500.

    Erm. Why?

    I mean, I like squats. But 5000?

    It just seemed like a good idea at the time.

    *looks about*

    *Also looking about*
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