Yoga or circuit training?

shandy4487
shandy4487 Posts: 72 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi everyone! I have a question about a fitness dvd. It is jillian michaels yoga meltdown. It has you do yoga moves in circuit style fashion (moves done quickly, lots of reps, keeps your heart rate up etc) soooo I was wondering whether it should be logged as yoga, or as circuit training? I am currently logging it as yoga so as not to overestimate my cals burned. I was just hoping someone might be able to clear this up for me :)

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  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    Circuit training would be a bit much. Power yoga is about equivalent to moderate effort calisthenics (both 4.0 METs or a bit under). Not quite sure how that that maps into the MFP categories.
  • shandy4487
    shandy4487 Posts: 72 Member
    Thank you :) Idk if I can maybe adjust the calorie count? Haven't gotten the app figured out 100% yet lol. anyways, thanks again
  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    Yeah, you can adjust calorie count -- I do it all the time to back out my RMR. You can also using the Scooby calculator ( http://scoobysworkshop.com/calories-burned ), which pretty much duplicates the standard METs database, and then create a custom exercise in MFP.
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    shandy4487 wrote: »
    Hi everyone! I have a question about a fitness dvd. It is jillian michaels yoga meltdown. It has you do yoga moves in circuit style fashion (moves done quickly, lots of reps, keeps your heart rate up etc) soooo I was wondering whether it should be logged as yoga, or as circuit training? I am currently logging it as yoga so as not to overestimate my cals burned. I was just hoping someone might be able to clear this up for me :)

    Yoga.
  • shandy4487
    shandy4487 Posts: 72 Member
    Oh okay awesome! Thank you so much :)
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    yes you can adjust when you add

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