Logging P90X for workout

bikermike5094

Anybody doing P09x? And if so, how do you log it in the excercise menu?

autiemommy

I made my own excercise for that and just use calories burned from my HRM

KyleGA

I am and I log them as cardio, I just put in the amount of time (dvd) and calories burnt. I use a HRM (heart rate monitor), so just plug that number in along with the time I spent.

Example, for Yoga - 90 minutes and 'x' number of calories.

How long have you been doing P90X? How do you like it so far? I'm about halfway thru my first round of it.

jbucci1186

i use my bodymedia (heart rate monitor) but before i got it, i would log all of the strength days as "circuit training, general" and all of the cardio days as "aerobics, high intensity" i would log core synergistics as "aerobics, general" and sometimes the kenpo as "judo, karate, kick boxing, tai kwon do"

yoga i logged as yoga.

after getting the bodymedia, i found that MFP was pretty close on the strength days as well as the cardio, but i started to log kenpo as "aerobics, high intensity" bc the judo one was a bit higher than i actually burned.

hope that helps!

i also created exercises that are specifically p90x. i don't know if everyone can use them, but when i search exercises under "p90x" they do show up, but maybe that's bc i created them?

alyssa92982

U need a heart rate monitor-unless ur like me and don't have 1. For abs and pushups I look up calorie burned for calisthenics-also use "strength training." For the cardio/pylo part I have looked under aerobics-high impact??

slb106

I've been logging it as general aerobics for core synergistics, kenpo, and cardioX. For Ab Ripper, I log it as sit-ups, vigorous. But I always make a note about what I actually did that day. I don't usually eat back all my exercise calories, so I figure it's ok if my calories burned are not completely accurate.

TTops76

I'd invest in a HRM and create your own exercises. The calorie burned estimates on MFP are extremely high from what I've found. Good luck P90X is a blast

bikermike5094

Thanks all, sounds like a monitor is the accurate way to go. I'm going to start on 8/14. Gotta get past Sturgis Rally first, too much self indulgence and debauchery to indulge in before I jump into a fitness program full force. Is that twisted? Anybody ever go on any kind of a binge before their start date?

TTops76

Haha every weekend Enjoy Sturgis, we were going to go this year but ended up riding to North Carolina to do the Blue Ridge and Dragon.

bikermike5094

I'd like to do the dragon someday. but not sure I would give up Sturgis for it. :glasses: