week 3

ashley11284

Hi everyone,
I'm starting week 3 of chalean extreme and i'm just switching from Weight watchers to MFP. Weight watchers was a little confusing for me. So i'm just wondering if and how everyone tracks their calories burned on strength days? Am i better off not to count those calories burned and just stick to my calorie goals for those days? Any thoughts would be great! Thanks

daph416

I'm in week two of the program and I wear a wristband HRM during my workouts and then log those calories burned under the cardio section. I also wear a Fitbit daily so when I log my calories burned during my workouts, my normal fitbit cals burned during that time frame are adjusted and replaced with my workout cals burned. I think it's important to keep up with those cals, now whether you want to count them toward extra food you get to eat is your option.

amomono

I'm actually logging those sessions as "calisthentics, vigorous". Calistentics are supposed to be lunges and pushups and that kind of stuff - which is mostly what we are doing... only with weights. I sweat more with CLX than I did lifting at the gym, because we are using more muscles at once, so I thought that was fair. It seems to be about the calories that folks were posting that their Heart Rate Moniters were giving them also.

ashley11284

Thanks for the tips! Is everyone eating the calories they burned or no? I"ve not been losing well and just trying to figure out why.
Thanks!

Becoming_A_Butterfly

Thanks for the tips! Is everyone eating the calories they burned or no? I"ve not been losing well and just trying to figure out why.
Thanks!

MFP seems to really overestimate calorie burn for some workouts, so I rarely eat the calories burned on workouts logged here.

ashley11284

I was thinking the same thing too! I usually log less time than what i acutally did.

jaz050465

According to my Bodymediafit I burn 200-250. I'm 5ft 7 and weigh 148 pounds.