CrossFit and Circuit Trainjng

bellesb169

i just completed my first CrossFit class tonight and it was GREAT! I was drenched in sweat almost 70% of class. Unfortunately crossfit isn't listed in the exercise database and I don't have a heart rate monitor. How would you try to calculate or estimate calories burned for the 1 hour class?

jeremywm1977

With CrossFit, it's a complicated formula.
You start with the base metric for circuit training. From there, you add about 5% to account for the fact that you aren't just lifting weights, you're throwing them around all chaotically with no regard for practicality or functionality.

After that, add another 10% to account for your body having to constantly adjust to the bad form that CrossFit employs.

If you haven't thrown out your shoulder or blown out an ACL, give yourself another 5%.......this is your "pat on the back" credit for not being another CrossFit statistic.

If you started preaching about CrossFit after getting done, getting in your friends' faces about it and singing it's praises, please deduct 25% and if your workout in any way, shape or form wound up on Facebook, Instagram, etc, subtract another 25%.

There are other adjustments, I'm sure, and please feel free to accept this as good hearted humor.

jeremywm1977

Being serious, just use the "circuit training" metric that MFP already has programmed in. That should be sufficient. For a 1 hour class, depending on your fitness level and the intensity you put into it, I would estimate between 500-800 calories.......over 800 is possible, but my range is just an estimate.

bellesb169

jeremywm1977 wrote: »

With CrossFit, it's a complicated formula.
You start with the base metric for circuit training. From there, you add about 5% to account for the fact that you aren't just lifting weights, you're throwing them around all chaotically with no regard for practicality or functionality.

After that, add another 10% to account for your body having to constantly adjust to the bad form that CrossFit employs.

If you haven't thrown out your shoulder or blown out an ACL, give yourself another 5%.......this is your "pat on the back" credit for not being another CrossFit statistic.

If you started preaching about CrossFit after getting done, getting in your friends' faces about it and singing it's praises, please deduct 25% and if your workout in any way, shape or form wound up on Facebook, Instagram, etc, subtract another 25%.

There are other adjustments, I'm sure, and please feel free to accept this as good hearted humor.

Hilarious!!! Thanks for the reply though!!