Adding squats

tjdaws2019

Hi
Relatively new and still learning my way through mfp
Wondering how you would add squats to daily menu to calculate calories burned ...
Any help greatly appreciated

4legsRbetterthan2

It's counter intuitive, but search for it under cardio

Pupnuzz

tjdaws2019 wrote: »

Hi
Relatively new and still learning my way through mfp
Wondering how you would add squats to daily menu to calculate calories burned ...
Any help greatly appreciated

I would look up a general calculator online or something. If I use this app for my cycling it tells me I should have burnt 1500 calories on my cycle, where as my actually cycle says 186. So the app is a wee bit Innacurate.

XxFunctionalStrengthxX

Pupnuzz wrote: »

tjdaws2019 wrote: »

Hi
Relatively new and still learning my way through mfp
Wondering how you would add squats to daily menu to calculate calories burned ...
Any help greatly appreciated

I would look up a general calculator online or something. If I use this app for my cycling it tells me I should have burnt 1500 calories on my cycle, where as my actually cycle says 186. So the app is a wee bit Innacurate.

Calories burned varies by the individual. Variables such as general conditioning, size, body composition, and intensity all have a big impact on actual calories burned. Add in the inconsistency between apps/devices and it's a mess.

For this reason alone, my coach had me disable any activity recording of calories burned. She has me log food intake only, and any exercise I do put in the exercise notes.

maureenkhilde

I cannot remember which post, or the name of the poster. It is someone with lots of posts, and been on here a long time. I believe they are a pretty serious runner. Had some really good information that I personally have found extremely helpful for some basic information about calories burned in different ways.

I believe they said the information came from a fittness magazine, but I do not remember the name. And the totals will be slightly different for each person. Because there is a factor based on walking, jogging, running or cycling and you multiple that by your current weight. Then you take that resulting number and multiple it by how many miles you walked, jogged, ran, or cycled. That gives you calories burned. I have found that number to be a very reasonable number.

I remember the ones for walking and cycling because that is what I do. I cannot remember if mph was stated for them or not. I looked up for cycling as that is the one I do most often.

For walking .31
For Jogging I do not remember
For running .36
For cycling .33 X weight= result X your distance= calories burned (moderate pace of at least 11mph I think was mentioned)