How to Log Weight Machines...?

thejarviclan

I use the weight machines at the Y 6 days a week. (I'm talking about the Cybex brand leg extension, leg curl, leg press, hip ab- and adduction, chest press, overhead press...those sorts of machines.) Anyway, I've been logging these on MFP as 30 minutes of "circuit training" (because that's what my Y calls them) but the 245 calories it gives me for this seems like too many.

Firstly, should I be logging them differently?

And secondly, should I be doing them every day? Or alternate the arm machines and leg machines on opposite days? This is what I did when I worked out with free weights at home.

TIA!

thejarviclan

I use the weight machines at the Y 6 days a week. (I'm talking about the Cybex brand leg extension, leg curl, leg press, hip ab- and adduction, chest press, overhead press...those sorts of machines.) Anyway, I've been logging these on MFP as 30 minutes of "circuit training" (because that's what my Y calls them) but the 245 calories it gives me for this seems like too many.

Firstly, should I be logging them differently?

And secondly, should I be doing them every day? Or alternate the arm machines and leg machines on opposite days? This is what I did when I worked out with free weights at home.

TIA!

heather0mc

i go to curves and use all those machines. curves tracks the number of calories you burn and mine are actually higher than what the circut training will count for me, so i add a few minutes to get closer to what curves says i burn.

i hope its right! otherwise i am in big trouble! :happy:

mandersen16

I alternate leg and arm days. I also do cardio in between them. So like arms one day and then cardio and then legs and then cardio, then arms (I think you get the point).

drewzaun

You should not work the same muscle groups day after day, they need time to rest. Working out with out proper rest will retard your progress and increases your chance of injury. I do my upper body Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, with legs in Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ideally you should not take two days off in a row, like I do, but meh. I am not strength training to look like Ahnold.