subtract your BMR cals from your workout cals

mamakitty
mamakitty Posts: 249
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone subtract you hourly BMR cals from your workout cals? For example my BMR cals per hour is about 60 and if I burn 300 during a work out, I would subtract 60 from 300 giving me 240. These are the cals I add to my allowance for the day.
Any thoughts?

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  • mamakitty
    mamakitty Posts: 249
    Does anyone subtract you hourly BMR cals from your workout cals? For example my BMR cals per hour is about 60 and if I burn 300 during a work out, I would subtract 60 from 300 giving me 240. These are the cals I add to my allowance for the day.
    Any thoughts?
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    Absolutely. Otherwise, you're re-counting those calories you would've burned doing nothing.
  • cherapple
    cherapple Posts: 670 Member
    I don't because I have my base calories set at "sedentary" level. That way I can use all my exercise calories because I know I probably need a few more anyway.
  • shkaki
    shkaki Posts: 234 Member
    BMR is a count of the calories used for normal body function, you should not subtract those calories from exercise calories, exercise calories are extra calories burned by muscles..etc when exerting energy!
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    BMR is a count of the calories used for normal body function, you should not subtract those calories from exercise calories, exercise calories are extra calories burned by muscles..etc when exerting energy!

    Yes, but you use a certain # of calories doing absolutely nothing.

    If you go running for 30 minutes, you burn 300 calories.
    If you sit for 30 minutes, you burn about 25 calories.

    You'd burn those 25 calories running or sitting, you just burn extra when you run. So if you're eating all the calories you'd burn sitting, and then the exercise calories, you don't need to also re-eat the calories you'd burn just sitting. Your actual calories from EXERCISE are 275, not 300.
  • shkaki
    shkaki Posts: 234 Member
    the sitting calories are not a part of your BMR, that would actually be considered your RMR. I would definately eat all of those exercise calories burned (or as close as possible)
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    the sitting calories are not a part of your BMR, that would actually be considered your RMR. I would definately eat all of those exercise calories burned (or as close as possible)

    Yes, but MFP doesn't use your BMR as your baseline calories. It uses your TDEE-500/1000. I can see your point if you really are at or below your BMR, but in most cases the individuals who enter a correct non-sedentary activity level will be within their TDEE/RMR range.
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