How do you log a core workout?

JamesLiepman

How do you log a core workout?

kami3006

By what you were doing: calisthenics, yoga, pilates, etc.

JamesLiepman

Nothing seems to correlate to planks, dead bugs, knee raises, pallors etc.

kami3006

Those would fall under calisthenics.

sarabushby

And the calorie burn is likely to be negligible. I think I do 80cal in a challenging 45min Pilates class.

AnnPT77

I made a custom private exercise (under cardio) for core exercises, and assigned the same calorie estimate as the database gives for mild stretching (i.e., not much). This was for relatively mild-exertion kinds of things (plank variations, various swiss ball exercises, etc.): I thought "calisthenics" would be an overstatement of calories for what I was doing.

Once you set up a personal exercise, MFP uses the initial calorie estimate to scale your future uses of the exercise based on your minutes entered, and I believe also scales it by changing bodyweight.