What does workout 30 minute really mean?

MRazi96

Does the 30 minute include resting???or 30 minute workout without rest?? Just nees to know to track my workout using this app...

MelanieCN77

Keep your heart rate up for a total of 30 minutes. If you take a lot of breaks, you might need to for longer overall.

CafeRacer808

I suppose it depends on the type of workout. Personally, if i'm doing intervals on the rowing machine, my rest time between intervals is spent rowing at a slower pace. In that case, I count it towards my total workout time because I'm still working. That said, I use a heart rate monitor, which I assume is accounting for my lower heart rate during rest and is adjusting my calories burned accordingly. When it comes to weight or resistance training, I don't count the rest time toward my total workout time.

DancingMoosie

I don't include resting as part of my workout. Are you talking about cardio or weight training? I don't take breaks when doing cardio, and I stop my timer when resting between weight sets.

sijomial

Describe your workout perhaps?
Workout is far too generic a description to get meaningful advice.

For example if strength training then it does include rest periods between sets, if cardio workout then no.

lorrpb

How are you using the burn numbers? You can count the whole thing, and that's one reason it's suggested to eat back only half - 3/4 of your exercise calories. When I go to class or work with a trainer, there are always short rest breaks built in. I just log the total time of the session, which also includes warm up and cool down. I log the exercise as a record and to keep me motivated, I don't base my intake on my exercise calories, so the numbers don't matter as much to me. I use an average TDEE target. It makes me nuts to see the MFP numbers changing constantly throughout the day. I never know what my true intake should be, especially if I have to do extra math in my head to adjust for the exercise cals.

peaceout_aly

second2nd66 wrote: »

Does the 30 minute include resting???or 30 minute workout without rest?? Just nees to know to track my workout using this app...

Personally, I log for only the time that I am actively lifting. So if I am at the gym for 60-minutes but my rest time totals to 15-minutes, I'll only log 45-minutes of weight training as cardio.

peaceout_aly

Then again, I don't really eat back calories according to how much MFP says I burn anyway

Cylphin60

I log 45 minutes out of 45, with 6 timed sets each of 4 different exercises, 30 seconds rest between sets and 2 minutes between exercises. That 45 also covers about 15 minutes of warm up/down usually including a few minutes of cardio.

I do log all my exercise, but I halve the calories mfp assigns to it, and at most eat back half of that number, but I usually don't eat that high. My food intake usually keeps me too full to keep eating.

Lounmoun

I would only count the time you are actually doing your activity not resting.