How to log physical therapy

kmalex

Just wondering...

I am working on returning from a fairly severe knee injury. I go to physical therapy 3 times a week and do my exercises multiple times a day. I would like to log this in my exercises (since it's about the only exercises I am doing) so that I know how many calories I might be burning, but I am not sure how. Any ideas?

sexygenius

this site wildly over estimates calorie burn

Sasha_Bear

Well what kind of exercises does your physical therapy consist of?

ronda_gettinghealthy

what are you doing for therapy???? I am rehabing an achilles tendon, and my PT is all strenght no cardio so I cant count it, but I did for a while "chair dancing" no using my left foot and sitting doing aerobic type moves with the rest of the body- that counted as cardio

Sasha_Bear

this site wildly over estimates calorie burn

Actually I find that the site under estimate calories burned, When I use to log circuit training for 20 minutes the site said I burner around 320 calories once I got my hrm I found I was burning lot more then what MFP said.

sexygenius

this site wildly over estimates calorie burn

Actually I find that the site under estimate calories burned, When I use to log circuit training for 20 minutes the site said I burner around 320 calories once I got my hrm I found I was burning lot more then what MFP said.

hmm wierd, for 30 minutes on the elliptical it says like 1000 calories, its more like 300..

Sasha_Bear

this site wildly over estimates calorie burn

Actually I find that the site under estimate calories burned, When I use to log circuit training for 20 minutes the site said I burner around 320 calories once I got my hrm I found I was burning lot more then what MFP said.

hmm wierd, for 30 minutes on the elliptical it says like 1000 calories, its more like 300..

Hmmm... really weird I just tried to log 30 minutes of elliptical to see what it would say for me and it says 400?

Sasha_Bear

this site wildly over estimates calorie burn

Actually I find that the site under estimate calories burned, When I use to log circuit training for 20 minutes the site said I burner around 320 calories once I got my hrm I found I was burning lot more then what MFP said.

hmm wierd, for 30 minutes on the elliptical it says like 1000 calories, its more like 300..

It may not be as over estimated as you think .I checked your profile and your a lot younger then me so you would burn more if you ever use a hrm I'm curious to know what you come out with?

auntiebabs

I logged my PT under

Calisthenics, home, light/moderate effort

I couldn't do an thing high impact, but leg lifts and stationary bike and rollie things on the giant exercise ball among others

I underestimated my time, since this site seems to overestimate exercise calories a bit.

kmalex

Thanks!