Calories in activities

katelollavery

Hi! I am trying to figure out how many calories are burnt from a couple of activities I do. I put my activity level on here to lightly active so i can input my exercise myself. Which I feel like is more accurate
1. Tennis- I play private lessons for about a hour. Light running mostly just hitting

2. Pilates megafomer -Lagree- they claim you can burn around 400-600 per class but I’m not sure if I believe that,

cmriverside

I'd say pick a number for each of them. You can look online, you can use the numbers from this site's Exercise database or you can use a body tracking device like a Fitbit, but pick a number and stick with it for a couple months to get trending data.

There is no way that any device or website (or us) could guess accurately for everyone, since intensity and other factors come into play.

Use your numbers, adjust at the end of your two month experiment when you have enough logged data to make a determination.

Terytha

Google suggests tennis is about 6-8 calories per minute.

But you have to subtract the calories you would have lost anyway (because you burn some just by being alive) and round down to account for the times you were slowing down or moving less.

So. Yeah. Figuring out your actual burn, underestimating is best.

PAV8888

Terytha wrote: »

Google suggests tennis is about 6-8 calories per minute.

But you have to subtract the calories you would have lost anyway (because you burn some just by being alive) and round down to account for the times you were slowing down or moving less.

So. Yeah. Figuring out your actual burn, underestimating is best.

With you till the last three words.

Deleting them is best!

Yes, you want to create a consistent real actual deficit. No, you don't always need or want to push it to the max.

Terytha

I'm hesitant to say delete them, because you wouldn't want to be in too severe of a deficit.

My current strategy is to subtract my hourly TDEE, which is 96, then divide by 2. Its not very scientific but I figure it should keep me from dropping under 1200 calories per day.

PAV8888

Terytha wrote: »

I'm hesitant to say delete them, because you wouldn't want to be in too severe of a deficit.

My current strategy is to subtract my hourly TDEE, which is 96, then divide by 2. Its not very scientific but I figure it should keep me from dropping under 1200 calories per day.

Not sure why you do that.... MFP when set at sedentary gives you BMR x 0.25 / 1440 Cal per minute if you're trying to calculate actual net calories

BMR estimate used is Mifflin St Jeor and you can find it here: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

endermako

PAV8888 wrote: »

Terytha wrote: »

Google suggests tennis is about 6-8 calories per minute.

But you have to subtract the calories you would have lost anyway (because you burn some just by being alive) and round down to account for the times you were slowing down or moving less.

So. Yeah. Figuring out your actual burn, underestimating is best.

With you till the last three words.

Deleting them is best!

Yes, you want to create a consistent real actual deficit. No, you don't always need or want to push it to the max.

deleting them is not best. there is a big difference between overestimated exercise and 0.

sefajane1

Here's a good exercise calculator....

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/calories-burned-calculator/#result

Terytha

My exercise is abnormal. *shrug*

It doesn't matter though. My strategy works for me. Calculators work for other people. Either way, the point is to doubt anyone who tells you you'll burn 600 calories in a class. Because, probably not.

PAV8888

firecat1987 wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

Terytha wrote: »

Google suggests tennis is about 6-8 calories per minute.

But you have to subtract the calories you would have lost anyway (because you burn some just by being alive) and round down to account for the times you were slowing down or moving less.

So. Yeah. Figuring out your actual burn, underestimating is best.

With you till the last three words.

Deleting them is best!

Yes, you want to create a consistent real actual deficit. No, you don't always need or want to push it to the max.

deleting them is not best. there is a big difference between overestimated exercise and 0.

I think there is a mis-understanding about what I meant when I said: "deleting them is best".

My fault for not being clear.

My reference was to: "deleting the *last three words* i.e. deleting "underestimating is best" in reference to the post I was quoting.

blubell0422

So using this calculator my BMR is 1923...I am currently on a 1000 calorie a day diet...there's no way I would lose on close to 2000, in fact I'd start gaining at that amount. At least I think I would. I'd be too scared to try to be honest.

lynn_glenmont

PAV8888 wrote: »

firecat1987 wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

Terytha wrote: »

Google suggests tennis is about 6-8 calories per minute.

But you have to subtract the calories you would have lost anyway (because you burn some just by being alive) and round down to account for the times you were slowing down or moving less.

So. Yeah. Figuring out your actual burn, underestimating is best.

With you till the last three words.

Deleting them is best!

Yes, you want to create a consistent real actual deficit. No, you don't always need or want to push it to the max.

deleting them is not best. there is a big difference between overestimated exercise and 0.

I think there is a mis-understanding about what I meant when I said: "deleting them is best".

My fault for not being clear.

My reference was to: "deleting the *last three words* i.e. deleting "underestimating is best" in reference to the post I was quoting.

Yeah, I took it as meaning delete the exercise calories, which didn't make sense with your subsequent sentence about not needing to push your deficit to the max.

lynn_glenmont

I would use a MET chart for the tennis. For pilates too if you found in on there.

yirara

Pilates? Probably not a lot. You burn less calories holding a position relative to lifting something up. And lifting doesn't burn a lot of calories to start with.

hamelle2

Try www.fatburn.com