Tracking HIIT workouts / calories burned?

aedfit
aedfit Posts: 65 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Any suggestions on determining / recording calories burned for a HIIT session? The database doesn't have anything related to this or intervals that I can find.

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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    You need to describe your HIIT workout - there's many forms using different equipment.

    If, for example, you use a bike then measuring power would be good.
    If using weights then maybe log as circuit training.

    Almost universally going by heartrate would be misleading.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Do HIIT on a bike with a power meter.
  • aedfit
    aedfit Posts: 65 Member
    Mostly treadmill sprints on an incline of 10. 30 seconds sprint, 45 seconds rest. 10 sprints total.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    I'd enter that as 5 minutes of running.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    It's only 5 minutes of sprinting so not going to be a really significant calorie burn - not worth agonising over TBH, a rough estimate/guess is fine.
    Agree with the idea of just logging 5 minutes running at the speed you are doing.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    What do you mean by rest? You're still moving right?
  • casmithis
    casmithis Posts: 216 Member
    i do weights/strength with cardio intervals. I enter it as circuit training. For 45 minutes it's 324. which I've been told is fairly accurate. i do 15 minutes of yoga at the end that I don't log so i have a little bit of margin for error.

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