Insanity: how to include it on MyFitnessPal

haroldmk
haroldmk Posts: 7 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello,

Me and my girlfriend have been training with Insanity Workout and we want to know how to include those exercises onto our Android MyFitnessPal applicaction.

Is "Aerobics, high impact" correct for those exercises or we should go into other options like "Aerobics, low impact" or "Aerobics, general"; another option you can recommend?.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.
Harold&Juli

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  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    Depends on the workout, but the higher impact/intense workouts I think would be best with "aerobics, high impact" or "circuit training".

    For the most accurate calories burned, get a heart rate monitor. A decent Polar can be purchased on Amazon for under $70. Just something to consider.
  • haroldmk
    haroldmk Posts: 7 Member
    Thank you very much tageekly,

    I will try also with heart rate monitor, actually I do have one polar watch with chest-band and havent use it for calculate calories burned. Thanks.
  • pduckworth
    pduckworth Posts: 133
    I went out to Target and got a heart rate monitor and just log it as a custom workout. Before that, I would log it as circuit training. My HRM showed me burning about 200+ more calories though.
  • haroldmk
    haroldmk Posts: 7 Member
    Hello guys,

    I used my polar watch with HRM today and realized that the calories burned (as the watch shows) is closer to "circuit training, general" than "Aerobics, high impact", even though "circuit training" calculates 10% less than watch says. I will stick to "circuit training, general"

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