Anyone here use Leslie Sansome videos?

cupajoe

If so, how do you enter things like this in your exercise journal? If you do one that includes upper body strength training and carry 5lb weights through the whole thing...what then? I often do exercises that I'm not quite sure how to enter. Thanks.

sdirbder

I have the 5 mile one and I just put it in as walking. I dont have a heartrate monitor yet.

skinnyjeans13

I usually enter them as Aerobics, low impact and don't count the warm up or cool down time... but I just bought a HRM today because I am tired of guesstimating!

knittnponder

I have a few of them and used to log them as walking 3.5 miles per hour or whatever corresponded to the video I was using. After I bought a heart rate monitor I used that to figure out what I was burning and found it was A LOT less than what MFP was giving me credit for. I highly recommend getting a HRM if you can swing it. It's not going to be perfect but it will get you closer to the ballpark than MFP's estimates. All the exercises I do I now track with my HRM and all of them were estimated far higher by MFP.

Not surprisingly, my weight loss has sped up since getting my HRM.