How to Log Personal Trraining?
MeganNP
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Hi all. I am new to MFP, and am wondering what would be the best way to log my personal training sessions in my exeercise log. My trainer told me that I can estimate my calorie burn to be 600-700 calories for our weekly one hour sessions. The routine varies each session, but I am rotate through various exercises such as wieghted lunges, jump squats, lat pulls, incline sit ups with weights, mountain climbers, squats on a BOSU, planks, flies, chest press, bicep curls, tricep extensions, etc.
Should I make my own exercise called PT and enter the calorie burn my trainer estimates, or try to account for each exercise and repetition in the exercise journal? Also, I noticed the journal does not give calorie burn for strength training, only cardio. The way I train with the trainer, I do get cardio benefit from the strength training exercises.
Thanks!
Should I make my own exercise called PT and enter the calorie burn my trainer estimates, or try to account for each exercise and repetition in the exercise journal? Also, I noticed the journal does not give calorie burn for strength training, only cardio. The way I train with the trainer, I do get cardio benefit from the strength training exercises.
Thanks!
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Search for "Strength training" in the exercise database. That is what I use for my PT sessions. It probably underestimates the calorie burn though.0
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I made up my own workout for Jenny McCarthy's Your Shape Wii game and I enter in my calories after each workout.0
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Buy a Heart Rate monitor to truly know how many you are burning.0
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I just made my own exercise.. I called mine Personal Training W/HRM.
I burn between 530 calories and 700 calories depending on the routine and how bad I annoyed my trainer(The more I complain, the harder he makes me work, which is why I'd never trade him for a different one).0
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