PiYo and HRM

venuila

Hi!
I was just wondering for those of you that do PiYo and use a heart rate monitor what your numbers usually are?
I just started doing the PiYo workouts from beachbody and my hrm says I burn 55-70 calories for a 20 min session. It just seems really low to me. I googled how much on average people burn during those workouts and it says 200-400. Big difference!

venuila

Anyone?

unhgoose

I'm 5'7" and 160 lbs and when I was doing the 20 min. PiYo my burn was definitely much lower than some of my other more intense workouts. When I'm going all out I usually get close to 100 calories/ 10 min. PiYo was not that intense so I'd give myself about half of that. I generally just used MFPs settings and would log it as pilates/yoga or low impact cardio depending on which workout it was. I also don't eat all my exercise calories back.

I didn't actually wear my HRM during this, but I did periodically take my heart rate with a different device to get an idea of how hard I was working.

I really enjoyed PiYo but it worked better for me as an add on than as my sole form of exercise.

jsobole

Well, I'd burn about 200 or a little more during a 45 minute PiYo session, so I'd say your numbers are spot on for 20 minutes.

venuila

Thanks for the replies

Maybe it's cause I'm really new to PiYo (heck, even yoga or Pilates by itself I'm a newb) so I'm probably not doing all the moves correctly or as well as I should be.
Hopefully the numbers get better as I master the moves.

MeanderingMammal

venuila wrote: »

I just started doing the PiYo workouts from beachbody and my hrm says I burn 55-70 calories for a 20 min session.

The count is probably a little low, but not by much. You might get to 100cals for 20 minutes.

An HRM isn't really an appropriate tool for estimating calories in low intensity exercise, because your HR isn't a meaningful proxy for calorie expenditure at the levels it'll be at.