HIIT class

carlaringuette

Newbie here - How do you log a HIIT class in MFP. It's definitely cardio and we use weights too.

lizardcave

I have an Apple watch. I paid for Zones app, and enter the calories burned into MFP.

cmriverside

I would use "Circuit Training" in the database.

MeanderingMammal

cmriverside wrote: »

I would use "Circuit Training" in the database.

This

AnnPT77

cmriverside wrote: »

I would use "Circuit Training" in the database.

Good advice.

More generally, HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is not a type of exercise, it's an exercise pacing strategy. (That people are now calling classes of many types "HIIT" only confuses the matter.)

So, the answer is to log the workout as the type of exercise being done, not the pacing strategy: "Circuit training" is common in the classes called "HIIT", but "Calisthenics" is another option if it better describes the activity. Walk/run HIIT would be logged as some combination of those two activities, rowing machine HIIT would be logged as machine rowing, etc.

carlaringuette

AnnPT77 wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

I would use "Circuit Training" in the database.

Good advice.

More generally, HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is not a type of exercise, it's an exercise pacing strategy. (That people are now calling classes of many types "HIIT" only confuses the matter.)

So, the answer is to log the workout as the type of exercise being done, not the pacing strategy: "Circuit training" is common in the classes called "HIIT", but "Calisthenics" is another option if it better describes the activity. Walk/run HIIT would be logged as some combination of those two activities, rowing machine HIIT would be logged as machine rowing, etc.

Thanks Ann - Can you save certain circuits as a workout so I don't have to keep entering it each time. Although they like to mix it up so that probably wouldn't work either.

It was more like stations.

We started by slamming a Weighted ball 8 lbs. 20 sec rest 10 sec then 12 lbs., then next was ab work - scissors, then step up (the people who lean more to a cross fit style could jump up on the box - I'm not there yet) then weights - overhead push, then ropes single, then plank, then a back row with weights on the mat, then kickbacks with weight 20 secs - 10 sec then do the other side, then kettle bell, then mountain climbers and finally leg raises and reverse crunches. We did 3 rounds. I died at the end - LOL

cmriverside

carlaringuette wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

I would use "Circuit Training" in the database.

Good advice.

More generally, HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is not a type of exercise, it's an exercise pacing strategy. (That people are now calling classes of many types "HIIT" only confuses the matter.)

So, the answer is to log the workout as the type of exercise being done, not the pacing strategy: "Circuit training" is common in the classes called "HIIT", but "Calisthenics" is another option if it better describes the activity. Walk/run HIIT would be logged as some combination of those two activities, rowing machine HIIT would be logged as machine rowing, etc.

Thanks Ann - Can you save certain circuits as a workout so I don't have to keep entering it each time. Although they like to mix it up so that probably wouldn't work either.

It was more like stations.

We started by slamming a Weighted ball 8 lbs. 20 sec rest 10 sec then 12 lbs., then next was ab work - scissors, then step up (the people who lean more to a cross fit style could jump up on the box - I'm not there yet) then weights - overhead push, then ropes single, then plank, then a back row with weights on the mat, then kickbacks with weight 20 secs - 10 sec then do the other side, then kettle bell, then mountain climbers and finally leg raises and reverse crunches. We did 3 rounds. I died at the end - LOL

Yes, you can add your own personal exercises. From "Help" at the top of every page:

https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1011021-can-i-add-a-new-exercise-to-the-database-

cwolfman13

cmriverside wrote: »

I would use "Circuit Training" in the database.

yup

AnnPT77

cmriverside wrote: »

carlaringuette wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

I would use "Circuit Training" in the database.

Good advice.

More generally, HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is not a type of exercise, it's an exercise pacing strategy. (That people are now calling classes of many types "HIIT" only confuses the matter.)

So, the answer is to log the workout as the type of exercise being done, not the pacing strategy: "Circuit training" is common in the classes called "HIIT", but "Calisthenics" is another option if it better describes the activity. Walk/run HIIT would be logged as some combination of those two activities, rowing machine HIIT would be logged as machine rowing, etc.

Thanks Ann - Can you save certain circuits as a workout so I don't have to keep entering it each time. Although they like to mix it up so that probably wouldn't work either.

It was more like stations.

We started by slamming a Weighted ball 8 lbs. 20 sec rest 10 sec then 12 lbs., then next was ab work - scissors, then step up (the people who lean more to a cross fit style could jump up on the box - I'm not there yet) then weights - overhead push, then ropes single, then plank, then a back row with weights on the mat, then kickbacks with weight 20 secs - 10 sec then do the other side, then kettle bell, then mountain climbers and finally leg raises and reverse crunches. We did 3 rounds. I died at the end - LOL

Yes, you can add your own personal exercises. From "Help" at the top of every page:

https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1011021-can-i-add-a-new-exercise-to-the-database-

This would potentially be an especially good idea in this case, maybe: Sounds like the HIIT is a combo of circuit training and calisthenics (not surprising). IIRC, those two have different default calories, so maybe an intermediate value would be a conservative idea (although it's all wild guessing for something like this, until the weight loss results roll in and allow for reality-based adjustments ).

OP, don't log the individual exercises. Under cardiovascular exercise, just log the whole time period as circuit training, calisthenics, or create a custom entry in between (calorically speaking). In the phone app, the "Create an exercise" button shows up in an obvious way at the bottom of the exercise search page (at least for Android). IIRC, in the web app, you have to search for a nonexistant exercise, and only on the "not found" page will it give you an option to create your own. After you create your custom exercise (X calories for Y minutes), it will use that initial calorie value to calculate calories/minute and estimate your future uses of the same exercise description.