How many calories can I burn doing 30 squats?
Suzuki4life7
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Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
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30 squats? bodyweight? Bar + 80? Wide range. Regardless, very few and not enough to log. There are plenty of other excellent reasons you should do squats tho... Killer tush... etc
Jumping jacks log as calisthenics. No one could give you a number without your stats.4 -
Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.1 -
Depends how long you are doing them, your current height and weight and if these squats are weighted. However, the actual amount of calories burned is probably going to be very little, I mean 30 squats without added weight takes what 3 minutes...that's for me maybe 3-5 calories burned off. Not exactly worth recording imo1
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It depends on what kind of squats they are and how quickly you do them.
If they're regular bodyweight squats I'd log them as X minutes of calisthenics at light/moderate effort.0 -
Is this where I say "not enough to log" and get blasted for not being supportive?8
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Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
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holothuroidea wrote: »Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
No. Plus, you don't know if they are continuous, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10...0 -
Not enough to worry about.2
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blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
No. Plus, you don't know if they are continuous, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10...
Probably 30 reps of body weight as I don't know any lifters who would say I did 30 squats today. That's be much more specific unless it is an amrap set lol1 -
Don't view exercise as a way to burn calories. It's an easy way to get in a bad cycle of trying to exercise off a bad diet. Get your diet on point regardless of exercises and then use exercise to increase your deficit if you're dieting.1
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20 calories? It's not going to be much. Even if it took you 5 seconds to do one squat, that's only 2 1/2 minutes of squats. And even doing HIIT for 2 minutes, you're not going to burn a lot of calories.
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blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
No. Plus, you don't know if they are continuous, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10...
I have to assume that she's doing bodyweight squats for time, because otherwise 30 squats doesn't make much sense. I believe I already said that.
Resistance training and strength training aren't the same. Strength training requires doing something of high intensity for 1-5 reps. Even if you could do 6 sets of 5, you're really in the territory of hypertrophy training at that point.0 -
holothuroidea wrote: »blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
No. Plus, you don't know if they are continuous, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10...
I have to assume that she's doing bodyweight squats for time, because otherwise 30 squats doesn't make much sense. I believe I already said that.
Resistance training and strength training aren't the same. Strength training requires doing something of high intensity for 1-5 reps. Even if you could do 6 sets of 5, you're really in the territory of hypertrophy training at that point.
I really don't know why it doesn't make sense... I do 3x10 with 35's... we all do different programs. NROLFW has you doing 3x15's.0 -
20 calories? It's not going to be much. Even if it took you 5 seconds to do one squat, that's only 2 1/2 minutes of squats. And even doing HIIT for 2 minutes, you're not going to burn a lot of calories.
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blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
No. Plus, you don't know if they are continuous, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10...
I have to assume that she's doing bodyweight squats for time, because otherwise 30 squats doesn't make much sense. I believe I already said that.
Resistance training and strength training aren't the same. Strength training requires doing something of high intensity for 1-5 reps. Even if you could do 6 sets of 5, you're really in the territory of hypertrophy training at that point.
I really don't know why it doesn't make sense... I do 3x10 with 35's... we all do different programs. NROLFW has you doing 3x15's.
Most of the time when people say they did 30 squats they mean bw squats for time, usually in a progression of other calisthenic exercises. Like, 50 jumping jacks, 40 lunges, 30 squats, 20 push ups, 10 burpees (for example). Most of the time when people do sets, they specify. So that's why I think it was a fairly reasonable assumption.
I'm not criticizing any program. We do all do different programs and they all have their own merits but you replied to my comment with "no" and put me in a position to defend myself. 3x10 and 3x15 are not going to build strength, they will build endurance. If you can do more than 5 reps at a time then there's not enough intensity per rep to build strength.
Exact stats vary but generally...
Intensity, Result
1-5 reps, strength
3-10 reps, hypertrophy (muscular size)
8+ reps, endurance
Many strength programs will incorporate some hypertrophy and endurance training but when you're doing 30 reps of something at a time, it is no longer part of strength training even if the movement is a traditional strength training movement.0 -
holothuroidea wrote: »blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
No. Plus, you don't know if they are continuous, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10...
I have to assume that she's doing bodyweight squats for time, because otherwise 30 squats doesn't make much sense. I believe I already said that.
Resistance training and strength training aren't the same. Strength training requires doing something of high intensity for 1-5 reps. Even if you could do 6 sets of 5, you're really in the territory of hypertrophy training at that point.
I really don't know why it doesn't make sense... I do 3x10 with 35's... we all do different programs. NROLFW has you doing 3x15's.
Most of the time when people say they did 30 squats they mean bw squats for time, usually in a progression of other calisthenic exercises. Like, 50 jumping jacks, 40 lunges, 30 squats, 20 push ups, 10 burpees (for example). Most of the time when people do sets, they specify. So that's why I think it was a fairly reasonable assumption.
I'm not criticizing any program. We do all do different programs and they all have their own merits but you replied to my comment with "no" and put me in a position to defend myself. 3x10 and 3x15 are not going to build strength, they will build endurance. If you can do more than 5 reps at a time then there's not enough intensity per rep to build strength.
Exact stats vary but generally...
Intensity, Result
1-5 reps, strength
3-10 reps, hypertrophy (muscular size)
8+ reps, endurance
Many strength programs will incorporate some hypertrophy and endurance training but when you're doing 30 reps of something at a time, it is no longer part of strength training even if the movement is a traditional strength training movement.
You're making a differentiation between strength training and conditioning which imo does not apply to the OP's question of whether to log calories for 30 squats. If you had said that it was conditioning not strength training in your post, I wouldn't have said no, and in fact wouldn't have commented at all, as it didn't apply to the OP. You just said 'it ceases to be strength training'... but the question was how many calories to log.0 -
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blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »blankiefinder wrote: »holothuroidea wrote: »Suzuki4life7 wrote: »Hey guys I looked it up on my fitness pal but I can't find it and I wanted to have an idea. Also how many calories I can burn doing jumping jacks?
Squats would usually be strength training, and strength training burns few calories.
Continuously doing jumping jacks would probably have a burn measure based on minutes, rather than "jacks" done. I imagine it would be incredibly variable based on the intensity one does them at.
I think if you can do 30 reps of anything it ceases to be strength training.
No. Plus, you don't know if they are continuous, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10...
I have to assume that she's doing bodyweight squats for time, because otherwise 30 squats doesn't make much sense. I believe I already said that.
Resistance training and strength training aren't the same. Strength training requires doing something of high intensity for 1-5 reps. Even if you could do 6 sets of 5, you're really in the territory of hypertrophy training at that point.
I really don't know why it doesn't make sense... I do 3x10 with 35's... we all do different programs. NROLFW has you doing 3x15's.
Most of the time when people say they did 30 squats they mean bw squats for time, usually in a progression of other calisthenic exercises. Like, 50 jumping jacks, 40 lunges, 30 squats, 20 push ups, 10 burpees (for example). Most of the time when people do sets, they specify. So that's why I think it was a fairly reasonable assumption.
I'm not criticizing any program. We do all do different programs and they all have their own merits but you replied to my comment with "no" and put me in a position to defend myself. 3x10 and 3x15 are not going to build strength, they will build endurance. If you can do more than 5 reps at a time then there's not enough intensity per rep to build strength.
Exact stats vary but generally...
Intensity, Result
1-5 reps, strength
3-10 reps, hypertrophy (muscular size)
8+ reps, endurance
Many strength programs will incorporate some hypertrophy and endurance training but when you're doing 30 reps of something at a time, it is no longer part of strength training even if the movement is a traditional strength training movement.
You're making a differentiation between strength training and conditioning which imo does not apply to the OP's question of whether to log calories for 30 squats. If you had said that it was conditioning not strength training in your post, I wouldn't have said no, and in fact wouldn't have commented at all, as it didn't apply to the OP. You just said 'it ceases to be strength training'... but the question was how many calories to log.
You said that squats are for strength training and therefor you shouldn't count the calories. That's not true, doing 30 squats for time would not be strength training, they would be part of a calisthenics or similar workout and should definitely be logged that way (as minutes of calisthenics, light/moderate intensity as I said in my original answer).
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I body squat while waiting for the microwave to beep. Plank waiting for a pan to boil. I count it in with my everyday activity.
If they are used as part of an aerobic workout I log the total mins as that is purposeful exercise.
30 squats here, 2min plank there rolls over to my normal day's activity.
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Let's put it this way. On average, doing 4 sets of 8 reps deadlifting 175kg burns ~100 calories. That's 32 total reps @ 385lbs to burn 100 calories.
Granted, deadlifting, not squat, but both are big compound lifts utilizing lots of muscles.
Weight lifting doesn't burn many calories up front but it helps you build more muscle to burn calories all day long.
If this was very lightweight or bodyweight squats as part of a larger calisthentics routine, lot the whole routine, but if it was just squats don't worry about the calories burned and just do the work.
@middlehaitch that's a great way to work little things in throughout the day!0 -
Body weight squat would burn about (.08 cal x body wt (kg)) per minute.1
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5? 10? calories.0
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Thanks everyone for letting me know I greatly appreciate it 0
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Yes but OP also asked about Jumping jacks
I said "at most". Kind of like all those weight loss infomercials that say "Lose up to 10 lbs your first month!" People think they'll lose 10, but they said up yo. Small details. 0 -
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