KETTLE BELL WORKOUT HELP!?!?!?

themsbauer

I AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY CALORIES KETTLE BELL WORKOUTS BURN PER MINUTE. I NEED TO FIGURE IT OUT SO I CAN TRACK MY CALORIES FOR THIS WORKOUT.

I HAVE COME ACROSS ABOUT 8 DIFFERENT WEBSITES THAT SAY THE KBELL WORKOUTS BURN 20 CALORIES PER MINUTE BUT THAT SEAMS OUTRAGEOUS AND I DONT KNOW IF I BELIEVE THAT. BUT EVEN WOMEN'S HEALTH MAGAZINE SAYS THE SAME THING. IM JUST NOT SURE.

IF ANYONE HAS THE ANSWER OR KNOWS WHERE I CAN FIND IT THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!

THANKS MUCH!!
ANG

sunshine79

Without your height and weight and the weight of the kettle bell it wold be hard to help and any suggestions would still be very inaccurate. Without a HRM it's hard to tell. Maybe you could average the highest, middle and lowest figures you found as a guide?

themsbauer

I am 5'2 and 180. I don't know how to figure any of that out. I just saw what a bunch of different articles and a study by a doctor and it said 20 Cal's a minute. I wish I knew if that was true

themsbauer

My kettle is 4 pounds. Highest I found was 20 Cal's a minute so 400 cal for 29 minutes. Middle was 300cal/2o minute. Lowest found was 279cal/20 minutes. So I almost not sure

MOM2SWEETNESSx3

With such a light weight KB I doubt you'd be burning 20 cals a min. It also depends on the exercises your doing for the time your working out. Your best bet would to go buy a HRM to get an accurate count. I'm 5'7" and 137 with a 12kg KB I burn around 375cals in a 30 min session on average according to my my HRM.

LG61820

I have two kettle bell videos that I do from time to time and I love them, but I don't find that they burn mega calories. I do a Gin Miller dvd and Shred it With Weights level 1 and burn about 4 cals per minute according to my HRM. I use a 10# bell. I'm 166 and about 5'5", also much older than you which could lower the calorie burn.

Delicate

Thats a small weight for kettle bells but its better to get the technique right first!

I often mean to use my hrm while training on it but always worry the kettle bell will smash the screen !

with the right weight its an intense work out, I would go with the lower limit calorie burnage for you, at the moment

BR1986FB

I did what I refer to as kettlebell "intervals last night for 15 minutes. This involved alternating arm swings (30 reps @ 35 lbs) followed by 30 seconds of speed jumping jacks followed by 2 arm swings (20 reps @ 55 lbs) followed by 30 seconds of speed jump rope....15 second water break, repeat 3x's in 15 minutes. I burned under 300 calories for this workout and my calorie burns tend to be high.

themsbauer

I have the kettlenetics DVD that I do. Its 40 minutes of nonstop moving, swinging, squat, and everything else u can think of. I know I don't burn 20 Cal's a minute but it would b nice. I guess I could put what I burn on the elliptical which is 10 a minute l. At least that is what the machine says. Even if I have am HRM I wouldn't know what to do with it. How to figure any of those calculations