Aerial! And other less common activities.

Saaski

I had my usual hour and a half class on Saturday and my arms are still noodles (though it probably doesn't help that Sunday I went to an adventure park and spent two and a half hours climbing trees and doing obstacle courses). With only four students and two teachers, I was on an apparatus or doing conditioning training for the entire class.

Though I'm not really sure how to log it. I mean, I'm doing straight-arm inverts for minutes at a time, working on trapeze, doing wall-sits and calf raises when I'm not in the air, and it's pretty non-stop. I've been using "gymnastics general" as a guesstimate and kind of just going with that. (A HRM for me isn't an option at this time, so guesstimation it is, which I'm fine with.)

Anyone else here do "unusual" exercises?

PS, here's something I might be doing during a usual Lyra class =D

jdhcm2006

Hi @Saaski! I do unusual workouts as well. I do pole, silks, and trapeze. I'd really love to get into lyra as well but my schedule and wallet doesn't allow for that right now, lol.

But I log everything under gymnastics. It doesn't seem to give and out of this world calorie burn. I've read someone say they log it as rock climbing which doesn't seem like a bad idea b/c the muscles use seem to be similar enough. I may switch to rock climbing b/c I've read that gymnastics gives a higher calorie burn, but since I don't eat more than 100 of my exercise calories back, so far it hasn't been an issue for me.

I hope this helps! BTW you look amazing on that hoop!

ETA: after doing a little playing, it seems like rock climbing gives a much higher burn than gymnastics, so I'm going to stick with using gymnastics.

Saaski

Yeah, I've logged rock climbing before (after doing rock climbing) and was frankly astonished at the supposed burn. I took that with a huge grain of salt. I think it's reasonable for us to log under gymnastics.

And thank you!

heatherheyns

I do rock climbing. The huge burns are partly, I think, because people overestimate how many minutes they do it. If I am there an hour. I wasnt actually ascending the wall for 60 minutes, so I plug in 60 minutes I'll get a huge number when I might have only climbed for 20 actual minutes.

Saaski

Yes, I'm very careful about that. Usually if I'm in a 1.5 hour class, I log for 60 minutes because I know that's about how much I've been active. But some classes it really is you start and just go nonstop, minus a few breathing or water breaks.