Hello, I have a question...

obifatkanobi

Hi everyone. I just joined a few days ago and so far really like the site, the setup and am looking forward to spending quite a bit of time here. In adding exercise, I don't see anything for calories burned from doing crunches. I do see they can be added under Strength Training, but how many caloires does a person burn doing them? If anyone knows, please inform me. Thanks...

AprilChampion

you burn no more then 50 calories when you are doing crunches.

http://100abdominalexercises.com/howmanycaloriesdoyouburnwhendoingcrunches

bigdawg025

Although crunches aren't in there... what you can do is this... add your crunches as sets of sit ups under strength training first and then figure out about how many minutes you did them for and look up sit ups under cardio (it will come up as calisthenics... to include anything of that nature.) I hope this helps!

ldarter

Of course any kind of physical activity burns calories and crunches are no exception. But unless you are going to do an extremely high number of them over an extended period of time, I’m not sure the number of calories burned would be worth tracking.

The factors that determine calories burned are intensity, duration, the weight or body fat percentage of the person and the number of muscles being used. The only reasonable way to know for sure how many calories are burned by doing crunches is to wear a heart rate monitor that tracks calorie expenditures while doing them. The best estimate I have seen for crunches is that on average a person burns 3 to 5 calories per minute doing them.

So as you can see to burn any significant number of calories you would have to do an awful lot of reps over a relatively long period of time to have much effect with regards to burning calories. Some exercises I think lend themselves more to strengthening core muscle group than to burning significant calories and crunches I think fall into that category. Still I suppose a person willing to do several hundred of them over say 20 or 25 minutes would indeed burn a couple of hundred calories doing them.

obifatkanobi

Thank you everyone. The address you gave, April, is going to help a lot. Bigdawg, hadn't thought of entering them that way, thanks for the insight. As Idarter stated, there aren't many calories burned doing crunches. Even so, it's nice to see the numbers, as well as the effects. Again, thank you all for taking the time to answer, and for giving such useful answers. My best wishes...