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Instagram exercises. Cardio or strength

arrowprayer
arrowprayer Posts: 77 Member
edited February 11 in Health and Weight Loss
Those HIIT exercises that you see on Instagram of home workouts. Do they fall under cardio training or strength training.
Ie. plank, squats, burpies, lunges etc

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  • goal06082021
    goal06082021 Posts: 2,130 Member
    HIIT is cardio imo. If you want to log it for calories burned you'd have to do it under Cardio, but if you want to keep track of your bodyweight strength reps progress you can log them individually under Strength. Strength exercises don't get counted toward exercise calories.
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    edited February 2021
    I tend to think of the Strength Exercise category as being heavy lifting with weights (just my opinion, not saying thaya correct.). HIIT would likely fall more under Cardio, especially since Cardio Exercises logged on MFP are the only ones that affect your calorie goal.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,126 Member
    Usually anything in intervals is more for cardio and muscular endurance training. Since recovery time is shorter between sets, strength isn't the main focus.

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