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Exercise DVDs

allisonbmerten
allisonbmerten Posts: 11 Member
edited February 15 in Fitness and Exercise
Is there anywhere on this site that gives the calorie burn for various exercise DVDs such as Jillian Michaels 30-Day shred, etc...?

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  • Nicci93
    Nicci93 Posts: 397 Member
    There isn't, unfortunately. Like all of the exercises on this site, they are estimates of the average burn a user might have. Calories burn depends on the weight, height, and physical fitness of a person (if someone is more fit, their heart rate will not increase as high so they don't burn as many calories). The only way to get an accurate calorie burn is if you have a heart rate monitor.

    Since they are expensive, I suggest going off of the "Aerobics" option under MFP's listing. For DVDs like 30 Day Shred, this was pretty close to what I calculated with my HRM.

    And it is always better to underestimate calorie burn instead of overestimate! So if you are like me and eat back exercise calories, I would chop 50-100 calories off of what MFP tells you.
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