New fitbit flex user

ksmommy5

I have read the stickies and know to put all my non step exercises in mfp and let fitbit do its thing for step based, however my bootcamp is a mix of weights and leg and crunches and mountain kicks etc that would count as steps technically. Do i log the bootcamp in mfp or just the 30 mins of the weight part and add the time on fitbit for the step part? I just want to get an accurate calorie count

Thanks

heybales

Actually - the advice is to log the workouts in Fitbit, NOT MFP.
The Fitbit database is used better, and has several more options for intensity MFP is missing.

Also - if you have a non-HR based device, you are correct about manually logging non-step based workouts.
But if HR-based device, steady-state aerobic cardio doesn't need manually logging of any sort.

If the 30 min of weights is reps 5-15 and sets and rests between 2-4 min - then you can manually log in Fitbit.

Problem is, if that wasn't a straight 30 min in the workout - like the start - you'd be hard pressed to pick the right start time and duration, especially if not all in a row.
Then you'd be replacing some high end calorie burn with some low end lifting calorie burn - making the situation worse.

If you do this daily, then I'm guessing the lifting is not as I described above, so between the range of lifting to cardio, it's between perhaps closer to cardio side.
In which case the slight inaccuracy won't matter as much.

If you you this workout 3 x weekly, and it's 30 min of lifting, and only 15 of other, and you are a true bump on a log besides a sedentary job - then the level of inaccuracy may matter, but not much.
But the amount of inaccuracy in an otherwise active daily life just doesn't amount to much - there is more inaccuracy built into the food labels you are logging for food eating then that 30 min even 5 x weekly.

If this is a step-based device only, and you can find the 30 min of step activity in your workout where it looks like you were barely doing anything but you know you were lifting - then indeed go for replacing that with Lifting on Fitbit, using that start time and duration. BMR level burn for credit when actually doing lifting - ya, that's more significant perhaps, but still only 30 min.
Lifting is about 3.5 x BMR level burn - so you are given say 40 calories, and it could have been 140. That's decent enough to want.

ksmommy5

heybales wrote: »

Actually - the advice is to log the workouts in Fitbit, NOT MFP.
The Fitbit database is used better, and has several more options for intensity MFP is missing.

Also - if you have a non-HR based device, you are correct about manually logging non-step based workouts.
But if HR-based device, steady-state aerobic cardio doesn't need manually logging of any sort.

If the 30 min of weights is reps 5-15 and sets and rests between 2-4 min - then you can manually log in Fitbit.

Problem is, if that wasn't a straight 30 min in the workout - like the start - you'd be hard pressed to pick the right start time and duration, especially if not all in a row.
Then you'd be replacing some high end calorie burn with some low end lifting calorie burn - making the situation worse.

If you do this daily, then I'm guessing the lifting is not as I described above, so between the range of lifting to cardio, it's between perhaps closer to cardio side.
In which case the slight inaccuracy won't matter as much.

If you you this workout 3 x weekly, and it's 30 min of lifting, and only 15 of other, and you are a true bump on a log besides a sedentary job - then the level of inaccuracy may matter, but not much.
But the amount of inaccuracy in an otherwise active daily life just doesn't amount to much - there is more inaccuracy built into the food labels you are logging for food eating then that 30 min even 5 x weekly.

If this is a step-based device only, and you can find the 30 min of step activity in your workout where it looks like you were barely doing anything but you know you were lifting - then indeed go for replacing that with Lifting on Fitbit, using that start time and duration. BMR level burn for credit when actually doing lifting - ya, that's more significant perhaps, but still only 30 min.
Lifting is about 3.5 x BMR level burn - so you are given say 40 calories, and it could have been 140. That's decent enough to want.

Thank you.

Even during the break time I'm still keeping my hr up slightly. I go today so I will try and log it into fitbit and see what happens.