Exercising while sick

lilithsrose

I'd suggest resting and maybe just doing a small workout at home if you feel the need. Something less strenuous like yoga would be best. No one wants your germs if you're sick, plus your body needs time to recover. You won't lose much progress. Hope you feel better soon!

SezxyStef

heybales wrote: »

SezxyStef wrote: »

heybales wrote: »

Now lifting is one where you can improve the tool.

HR-based calorie burn for anaerobic and HR constantly changing = inflated.

Now, if it's only 40 min 3 x weekly - big whoop in the scheme of things.

But merely logging it on Fitbit (and that has been fixed now) as Weights will correct that - still small calorie burn compared to cardio, but still, more accurate, if not stressful to log it.

I use the weight lifting function on my Charge2...for 10mins (that's what mine takes) about 42 calories...that includes rest periods too...is that accurate? I don't know but I keep track regardless.

Those selections are merely to give a different text label to the workout for easier review. (or at least used to be)
It changes nothing as to how calorie burn is calculated. (or at least used to be)

But that is low enough I'm curious if they have now changed their method - because all it would take is to select the workout type, some of them use the database rate of burn rather than HR, and just apply it to the minutes done.
That would be the smarter way to do some of the workouts.
Like intervals and running/walking would actually be more potential for accuracy to revert to step-based calorie burn for distance.

Or, it could be the rare instance where the avgHR seen was low enough to give that low of calorie burn. That can happen too.

If you are curious enough (and I know I am) - if you note the avgHR seen during the lifting workout, and go find a true cardio workout of close to the same avgHR, and see what that given rate of burn is for 10 min then.

That was the easy test done when these units first came out. I had several curious about it too and they tested the different models. They all used the same HR-based calorie burn formula, no difference.

But software update could change that - it would be good to know.

Thanks if up to it.

Got a little bit smarter...looked at my history and here is what I found

heybales

Thank you!
There we go, heavy lifting is about the same calories as walking (about 3.5 MET which is about 3.3 mph equivalent), though avgHR will be higher.

So they have tweaked it - great to know.
Appears it's still tied to HR somehow though, because it's not strictly time-based, but at least it's down where it should be.

That simplifies recommendation to do the activity record merely to get the start/end time, and then log your own workout.
If you have the Fitbit that allows selecting the workout type - using Weight Lifting is fine.