Logging non-constant activity

jamesmacgilp

Apologies if this has been asked before, I did a few searches and couldn't find anything.

My girlfriend got me an UP3 for Christmas, which I have been really enjoying. I have it linked to MFP for meal tracking and Strava for cycling. I feel like I've worked out how to use it for the most part, but there's one thing I can't seem to figure out.

I practice/teach Historical Fencing 2-3 times per week, which involves ~3 hours of training each session. At different times during the evening, I could either be standing still while listening to an instructor/giving instruction myself, slowly performing a technical drill, or I could be in the middle of a full speed sparring match.

If I log this as the full 3 hours (using the activity type "Other"), my UP tells me I have burned ~1700 calories, which sounds far too high. I can't realistically log the exact times during which I am active (if it's a sparring night, for instance, I will likely be active in 3-5 minute bursts of highly intensive activity, followed by 3-5 minutes of rest).

Does anybody have a reasonable solution to get some more accuracy when logging this kind of activity? At the moment I'm just logging an hour as "Other", but I'm keen to have a solution which capture the whole session.

jjpptt2

I doubt there's a way to get any degree of accuracy with this sort of thing. Accuracy from static cardio is hard enough... something like this will be near impossibly, me thinks.

I'd either not log it at all and use those calories burned as a cushion for any errors I may make estimating my intake, or do what you're currently doing and make a reasonable approximation for how many minutes of that 3hrs I was active, and log it as a moderate intensity activity.