Tracking kettle bell exercises

snowsquall

Anyone know how u would put in the 30 min kettle bell exercise in with Bob from the biggest loser, its a huge sweat for me and just wondering how many cals for the 30 mins.

TeaBea

Under cardiovascular .... circuit training

If this is the right DVD .....collagevideo.com labels this circuit training 30 minutes/toning 20 minutes

http://www.collagevideo.com/workout-video/bob-harpers-kettlebell-sculpted-body-5968

If there is less cardio ...then use strength training (again under cardiovascular)

These will just be estimates ..........MFP counts run high for many people.

Chevy_Quest

I Am in to learn.

I wonder if this is right...

1. If you are moving continuously without stopping, then that is like doing steady state cardio with your arms. Then, you can use a HRM.

2. If you are doing an intense exercise and resting.. then the HRM method won't work.

---- experts... is this right/wrong/off?

?Thanks?

monica_reinert

I have been dong the HasFit kettlebell workout on a youtube site. Great 20 min workout. I track it as kettlebell high intensity. For 30 min it show's you burn 457 calories

Hope this helps.~

phjorg1

I have been dong the HasFit kettlebell workout on a youtube site. Great 20 min workout. I track it as kettlebell high intensity. For 30 min it show's you burn 457 calories

Hope this helps.~

You don't burn that much in 30 min. Half that maybe.

yogicarl

when I used a HRM, my kettlebell routines burned around 300 calories per half hour. That was a routine including swings, cleans and presses and Turkish get-ups, and non KB things like mountain climbers and burpees, but mostly KB movements.

phjorg1

Hrms are not accurate for non cardio activities.

Chevy_Quest

bump - curious for more info.. good stuff

VegasFit

I put in my kettlebell class as cardio. I find that I can't wear my HRM during class because it gets in the way. I estimate between 3-4 hundred calories per 60 minutes.

yogicarl

Hrms are not accurate for non cardio activities.

... not accurate for cardio either!

ummmmm84

I find this thread interesting as I have been putting my workout as strength. As it involves a weight I was annoyed when it said no calories burnt

snowsquall

There has to be some cal burn as zumba has over 900 cals for 1 hour, and when u r soaked doin 30 mins of kettle bells with a 20lb weight it would have to be 200 - 300 id think.

Chevy_Quest

Snowsquall - I agree with you.

I did an experiment today. I worked out with 18 lb kettlebells today and 6 lbs. I did not stop moving once in 20 minutes. So that would be like riding a recumbent bike with my arms.

I kept my HR steady between 120 and 130 the whole time with HRM. It said I did 125 BPM

Then I went to this site:

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
figured out my gross and then plugged that number into here:
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/net-versus-gross-calorie-burn-conversion-calculator.aspx
got get my net.

I estimated I burned just over 200 calories in 20 minutes.

The variables:

My weight
My fitness leve (VO2 max)
Power of exercise - (How much weight lifted, how high, how fast)

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I hope that this helps... I have not found anything definitive.

---- I am not claiming to the boards that I am right I am ONLY relating my own personal experience ---:drinker: