How do you measure this in Calories burned???

Kalbright79
Kalbright79 Posts: 65
edited September 28 in Fitness and Exercise
First day at Boot Camp at the gym...it was tough. There were stations set up. First we walked 2 laps around the gym. Then we went to stations...station 1 was jumping up on a box 10 times. Station 2: lifting a 25#bar out and up 10 times. Station 3: Laying down with your feet out - making a smiley face with your legs. Station 4: Squating down - throwing legs back and bringing them back to a squat and jumping up. Station 5: Run from corner of the building to the stop sign (a block) and back - did this 3x's. I did all of these stations three times!!! Then we did some ab workouts on matts for 5 minutes. It was very hard to keep up with the group but I did my best and feel good about that. I did not eat before I worked out and had about 16oz of water during the workout. Immediately after I had to go to work and I had one cup of cereal and 1/2 cup fat free milk.

(I just copied this from my daily notes) I really was trying to figure out how to enter this into the exercise tab and how in the world do you measure this in terms of calories lost??? Please help!

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  • nicolerah
    nicolerah Posts: 440 Member
    When I do the 45 or so minutes of Cardio X from the P90X series... I log it as aerobics general... It compares fairly relatively to my treadmill workouts where I actually get a reading from the machine.. I will continue to log it as this until I get a heart rate monitor to gauge the actual numbers lost!
  • Kalbright79
    Kalbright79 Posts: 65
    Thanks for that advice! :wink:
  • mom23nuts
    mom23nuts Posts: 636 Member
    I know having a heart rate monitor helped me make more accurate entries vs using the machines or guessing. I tend to be nerdy that way with wanting things precise so I didn't over or under eat later on!

    Maybe it's a great birthday or upcoming holiday gift espeially for the long haul of fitness.
  • Kalbright79
    Kalbright79 Posts: 65
    What kind of heart monitor do you recommend? Can you get it at Wal-Mart?
  • baldzach
    baldzach Posts: 1,841 Member
    Heart rate monitor, or look up "circuit training, general" in the exercise log. Sounds like it would give you a pretty accurate number. I do something similar twice a week, and it's pretty close to what my HRM tells me.
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