Calories burned during bootcamp

KatrinaGrey

Every Monday evening, to shake up my treadmill/elliptical and weight routine, I do a boot camp class at the gym (cardio and weights) for one hour. I'm not sure how to track the calories burned? I had a nutritionist tell me not to worry too much about counting calories burned and, if I'm eating right, to look at the calories burned during exercise as "icing on the cake." Should I just not track the calories and just record in my notes what I did (just for my own record)?

Thanks

TeaBea

Cardio & weights = circuit training

I eat my exercise calories back .... and am using MFP as DESIGNED.

MFP gives you a calorie deficit BEFORE exercise. When you add exercise ....you increase the deficit already given. When the deficit is too large, you risk losing muscle mass along with fat.

Healthy (IMO) weight loss is FAT loss. Too quick weight loss reduces fat & muscle at the same time; this does not help decrease your body fat %

The problem with adding exercise calories in ..... MFP & many machines tend to give inflated numbers. Some people eat a % of calories back .... then see how it goes and adjust (up or down).

TAsunder

I tend to record the boot camp classes at my gym as some combination of calisthenics/vigorous and calisthenics/moderate.

alpine1994

I would do circuit training

KatrinaGrey

Thanks everyone...this has been helpful. It's day 15 for me here so i'm still learning.