How do you record HIIT workouts on MyFitnessPal?

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EnglishNaijaGalinCali83
EnglishNaijaGalinCali83 Posts: 20 Member
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Hi All,

I have started a fitness and nutrition program that has me doing mostly HIIT & Tabata workouts. How do you log these in the app?

I have logged them as Aerobic (high impact) , Aerobic (general) and even Circuit training as I am not sure.

Do I need to add it as an exercise and where would I find the general calories burned for a 40 -60 minutes workout?

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  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,179 Member
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    Τhere is a HIIT option actually. If it lasts 40-60 minutes though, it is most certainly not HIIT.
  • EnglishNaijaGalinCali83
    EnglishNaijaGalinCali83 Posts: 20 Member
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    I typed in HIIT and couldn't find it. How do you track this?

    So HIIT longer than 40mins is valid? I
    am confused as I have found workouts on YouTube and do them at the specialised gym I go to (The Camp Transformation).

    Does that mean it is more circuit training then?

    They have multiple workouts (my gym) with the timings of HIIT but have many stations you work through.

  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,420 Member
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    What are you doing exactly? actual HIIT is cardio on such an intensity that you want to throw up. Then you recover at a slower pace, and do the same thing again, and again. and then you do throw up.

    What you're doing is likely interval or circuit training.
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,179 Member
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    If you can do it for 40 minutes, I would log it as circuit. HIIT, after 10 or so minutes of intervals, you want to die.
  • EnglishNaijaGalinCali83
    EnglishNaijaGalinCali83 Posts: 20 Member
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    yirara wrote: »
    What are you doing exactly? actual HIIT is cardio on such an intensity that you want to throw up. Then you recover at a slower pace, and do the same thing again, and again. and then you do throw up.

    What you're doing is likely interval or circuit training.


    I think my workouts at my gym are like you said mostly interval or circuit training. They have us do a 5 -10 minute warm up doing things like burpees, pushups, squats, mountain climbers, lunges, Jumping jacks, High Knees, Running in Place and Planks. Then they have us do a few workouts in 1-3 rounds incorporating most of the exercises (plus more) I listed with dumbbells and kettlebells. Total is about 40-45minutes. This is what they are currently doing due to COVID-19.

    Before it was 50 minutes with rotating stations and more equipment.

    I follow the YouTube channel Fitness Blender for their HIIT workouts and those are normally 20-40 minutes. An example below!
    https://youtu.be/H83DhoCPUb4

  • EnglishNaijaGalinCali83
    EnglishNaijaGalinCali83 Posts: 20 Member
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    https://youtu.be/H83DhoCPUb4
  • EnglishNaijaGalinCali83
    EnglishNaijaGalinCali83 Posts: 20 Member
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    LKArgh wrote: »
    If you can do it for 40 minutes, I would log it as circuit. HIIT, after 10 or so minutes of intervals, you want to die.

    Thank you very much 😊
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    edited June 2020
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    Circuit training in the database is for resistance training with usually machines - 15-20 reps, 1 min max rest between moving on to next machine.
    That's the study the entry is based on.

    You are doing calisthenics according to the database. Which indeed is interval in nature.

    HIIT is doing an activity that could be done for a long time in steady-state mode - therefore cardio, and instead doing it as intervals of a specific type - as hard as you can for short period, recover for longer, maybe 10-15 min max. As opposed to other interval types of cardio workouts that could go longer.
    Even Tabata is not HIIT - the intense section is longer than the recovery, and the intense section isn't as intense either for that fact.

    The vast majority of workouts HIIT has been slapped on to as a fad was always done as intervals, no other way of doing it really, so it wasn't called intervals. Like pushup or pullups - no one is doing that for 30-40 min non-stop like you could run or bike for that long.

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