Include warm up and cool down in # of mins exercised?

jfrankic
jfrankic Posts: 747 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
When I'm recording my number of minutes exercised, do I include the warm up and cool down minutes? I don't have a good heart rate monitor and I don't see myself getting one soon unless one of you kind folks sends me one......so I'm relying on my basic HRM watch to make sure my HR is above 80% and then using online calculators to determine cals burned. These are based on minutes, so what do I consider?

Tonight, I did the Turbo Jam kickboxing. The video is 48 minutes long total. About 6 minutes warming up and then there's some band work and cool down at the end. So, what do I plug in?

Thanks!!

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  • AngieCook09
    AngieCook09 Posts: 51 Member
    I was told by a trainer at the gym not to include warm up/cool down because your heart rate is not up, so I usually take 10-15 mins off the time I work out.
  • Denjo060
    Denjo060 Posts: 1,008
    I would log it seperate, intense for the main and then moderate for the warm up and cool down
  • ashlinmarie
    ashlinmarie Posts: 1,263 Member
    Even if you are in warm up or cool down, you should be burning calories as long as you are in your target fat burning heart rate. I would count whatever time is spent in that zone. I will stay on the treadmill until my heart is out of that target range.
  • erikkasusann
    erikkasusann Posts: 104
    I just count actual workout time, no warm ups or cool downs. I use a stopwatch app on my phone, or the timer on my fitbit to help keep track. Best of luck! :)
  • Sweet_Pea_82
    Sweet_Pea_82 Posts: 41 Member
    I could be wrong, but I usually split it up---for my videos I do a 5 min mild stretching, the 25-35 minute high cardio, circuit or whatever and then the 5-10 min stretching yoga (only because I know that is what is at the end). Like I said, most would probably say I'm wrong, but it is what I do........

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