circuit training!!!!

artdpaa

I'm 285 does anyone Know how many calories you burn in a 30 minute circuit training session

Wheelhouse15

artdpaa wrote: »

I'm 285 does anyone Know how many calories you burn in a 30 minute circuit training session

Depends on the intensity but there is an entry for it under cardio section of exercise here. That should be close enough.

Beaner63

At ~ 300, I am buring 844 in 45 minutes according to the app.

CharlieBeansmomTracey

MFP estimates exercise high for most. so I would cut that down to at least half so you are not overestimating. not to mention the calorie burn is going to be different for everyone as well

briscogun

Agreed (from above). I can guarantee that almost everyone is burning less calories than any app or machine is telling you that you are burning. For example, my treadmill tells me that I burn about 300 calories in about 30 minutes, but the running app that feeds into MFP clocks in around 120 calories. I use the 120. First of all, how would the treadmill know my height, weight, intensity, etc., so using that 300 calorie burn would just be self-defeating, I'd be "allowing" myself to eat back calories I haven't burned.

This is why some people don't even log their calories burned. They create a custom entry in MFP for their exercise and just enter 1 calorie to log the fact that they did the work, but they aren't looking to eat back the calories.

Circuit training is a wide range of possibilities. Bodyweight training? Dumbbells? Machines? Almost any exercise plan can be adapted into a circuit. I would err on the low side of estimating your burn from a logging perspective. And remember: when in weight loss mode, the training/exercising is helping you maintain your muscle mass so you don't burn lean body mass but hopefully mostly fat. The caloric benefit is secondary, its the body composition benefit that will help you more than anything in my book. Most weight loss is achieved through eating at a calorie deficit, but you can get a little extra "nudge" with exercise, and as the fat comes off, there will be a toned body revealed if you exercise during the process!

Just my $0.02.

Good luck!

no_day_but_2day

Buy a heart rate monitor. It will surprise the crap out of you. The HR monitor with give you an average HR and then you can plug that into a calculator online. I do this because my HR monitor used to say I was burning 1000 calories in a boxing class. I got so excited and then decided to plug that HR into a calculator and BAM. I found out the monitor was doubling the amount of calories. It's a bug. Sometimes it won't do it (I know this now bc I pretty much know what I'd burn per workout since I've been doing this a while) but most of the time it does. If you don't have the money to put out for a monitor, then you can put whatever you want into MFP but I don't recommend eating back those calories since you're unsure.

Wheelhouse15

no_day_but_2day wrote: »

Buy a heart rate monitor. It will surprise the crap out of you. The HR monitor with give you an average HR and then you can plug that into a calculator online. I do this because my HR monitor used to say I was burning 1000 calories in a boxing class. I got so excited and then decided to plug that HR into a calculator and BAM. I found out the monitor was doubling the amount of calories. It's a bug. Sometimes it won't do it (I know this now bc I pretty much know what I'd burn per workout since I've been doing this a while) but most of the time it does. If you don't have the money to put out for a monitor, then you can put whatever you want into MFP but I don't recommend eating back those calories since you're unsure.

HRM are only fairly accurate for steady state exercise, unfortunately. For anaerobic, weight training and interval training they give estimated burns that are way too high. Also, unless you can calibrate them to your own physiology they are even more inaccurate. For someone like me who trains above the max HR of the normal model it would think I'm about to die really lol.

TeaBea

no_day_but_2day wrote: »

Buy a heart rate monitor. It will surprise the crap out of you. The HR monitor with give you an average HR and then you can plug that into a calculator online. I do this because my HR monitor used to say I was burning 1000 calories in a boxing class. I got so excited and then decided to plug that HR into a calculator and BAM. I found out the monitor was doubling the amount of calories. It's a bug. Sometimes it won't do it (I know this now bc I pretty much know what I'd burn per workout since I've been doing this a while) but most of the time it does. If you don't have the money to put out for a monitor, then you can put whatever you want into MFP but I don't recommend eating back those calories since you're unsure.

Heart rate monitors are designed for steady state cardio. These will be wrong for circuit training (yoga, strength training, hiit, etc) as well.

As far as eating zero back because you're not 100% sure? It would make more sense to start with a percentage....say eat back 50% of MFP's exercise calories. Then gauge that number against your weight loss progress. That way you can actually narrow this number down.

Why eat calories back at all? MFP as designed gave you a calorie deficit with zero exercise built in. When you exercise you increase the deficit. That's great for "weight" loss, but keep in mind weight loss is a combination of fat+lean muscle+water. To minimize lean muscle mass you need to keep the deficit more moderate. Lowering your overall body fat % should be the goal, not just a number on the scale.

artdpaa

So do we have to eat all the calories that are assigned for us

Merrysix

I do circuit training but I don't eat back my calories from it. I eat about 1500 calories a day, which is great for slow steady weight loss for me. I only add in some exercise calories if I exercise for a long time (like running a lot of miles, etc.) But circuit training is a lot of fun. It really gives me a great energy, and I enjoy the women I do it with.

Wheelhouse15

artdpaa wrote: »

So do we have to eat all the calories that are assigned for us

Well no, that's up to you but you need to understand the reason behind those numbers and how they meat your goals. You don't want to cut too fast but you don't want to eat too many either.