Is this right????

cinyb
cinyb Posts: 70 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I did 45 minutes of Turbo Jam and entered it in here and it said that I burned 1,059 calories doing 45 minutes of Kickboxing (including Turbo Jam). Is this right it seems like an aweful lot of calories burned?

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  • MarineCodie
    MarineCodie Posts: 256 Member
    Get a heart rate monitor. That's probably high. No one here can tell you how many calories your burned... well, accurately anyway.
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    nope
  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    Oh boy! Get a HRM. Also it is better to underestimate burns than over estimate them.
  • InForBacon
    InForBacon Posts: 1,508 Member
    Sounds about right to me.
  • sarrah_n
    sarrah_n Posts: 192 Member
    Sounds pretty high to me. I have done 60 min Insanity workout, staying "in the zone" for 48 minutes and was around 700 calories based on my heart rate monitor. Keep in mind, I dont know you body type or how hard your workout was.
  • Hauntinglyfit
    Hauntinglyfit Posts: 5,537 Member
    I doubt that's accurate.
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    The program claims to burn about 1000 for an hour so let's say you burned more like 750 calories in 45 minutes.

    For most of MFP calorie burn listings, it's best to go with 1/2 to 2/3rds of what they give you if you plan to eat the calories back.

    For more accurate calorie burns, you may want to invest in a good heart rate monitor (HRM) with chest strap.

    Or you can go with the In Place of a Road Map (aka TDEE-%) method that already includes an estimate of calorie burn based on how active you are.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    No way in hell....

    It's pretty tough to burn more than about 10-12 calories per minute with sustained activity. Data base calorie burns are highly inaccurate due to there are just too many variables and most people vastly overestimate their intensity level because "it was hard for them." When most data bases say "vigorous"...they are generally referring to an exercise being performed vigorously by a very fit individual who actually has that ability. Just because you were working hard for you doesn't necessarily mean you were performing to a vigorous intensity level...it just means you are out of shape.
  • cinyb
    cinyb Posts: 70 Member
    ty all for you help. I have a polar heart rate monitor but it konks out while i'm using it losing the signal which is frustrating when trying to get accuarate cals burned I have a fit bit also so maybe I'll try both next time I work out
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    ty all for you help. I have a polar heart rate monitor but it konks out while i'm using it losing the signal which is frustrating when trying to get accuarate cals burned I have a fit bit also so maybe I'll try both next time I work out

    Are you adequately wetting your strap? Is it on snug enough? When I started losing, I had that problem until I took the strap in a little and made sure it was snug.
  • cinyb
    cinyb Posts: 70 Member
    I tightened the strap a lot maybe its just not wet enough it just keeps losing the signal
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    Heart rate monitors can be pretty accurate for sustained moderate-to-high-intensity aerobic exercise, such as running, cycling, and cross-country skiing. The more intermittent the exercise is, the less accurate they are. For weightlifting, they're fairly useless, since the equations they use to estimate calories are based on the assumption that a number of large muscle groups are being recruited. (For fun, try wearing your HRM when giving a speech in public: unless you're an experienced public speaker, it will tell you that you burned huge amounts of calories, just because your heart rate spikes when you're nervous.)

    As a reality check, I am a 175-lb. guy in his 40s, and when I bicycle at 17-18 mph (pretty fast, for a solo cyclist), I burn 600-700 calories an hour, with an average heart rate between 140 and 160. When I was running, before ruining my knees, I burned 600-800 calories an hour running at a pace around 6-8 minutes/mile. If you're burning 1000 calories in an hour, you're either very big or working so hard that you feel like keeling over when you stop.

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