JMBR and TDEE

carolinesparkle
carolinesparkle Posts: 60 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I originally posted this on the JMBR forum so apologies for doubling up.
What active level are you using when calculating your TDEE? I'm not sure if doing just JMBR 6 times a week would be lightly or moderately active? Many thanks!

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  • carolinesparkle
    carolinesparkle Posts: 60 Member
    *bump
  • Vaisaxena
    Vaisaxena Posts: 109 Member
    TDEE can be generally estimated for 95% of the population by multiplying your bodyweight by 14-16.... for women 14xBW=TDEE, men are usually in the 15xBW to 16xBW range... no need to get very complex with equations and such. You'll never be 100% right.

    If you are at a very high bodyfat percentage use the Katch-McArdle formula with Sedentary activity multiplier.
    I originally posted this on the JMBR forum so apologies for doubling up.
    What active level are you using when calculating your TDEE? I'm not sure if doing just JMBR 6 times a week would be lightly or moderately active? Many thanks!
  • carolinesparkle
    carolinesparkle Posts: 60 Member
    Thats makes a lot of sense, thank you! I am 133 pounds with 25% body fat so am working on 133*14=1862. I've been using different numbers and sites but this is really clear. Thanks!
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    If you use Scooby's Workshop to calc TDEE, he breaks it out by hours per week. Not sure how long JMBR is but assuing it's 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week would be 3 hours per week. So you're kind of on the borderline between light and moderate but you may be a more active person anyway. Eventhough my base is technically sedentary due to having a desk job, I try to do more active things every day like get up several times to get printing, park further away, take the stairs etc.
    What I might do is take an average of the two and see how that works out for a few weeks.

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
  • carolinesparkle
    carolinesparkle Posts: 60 Member
    Thanks, I am a primary school teacher so am on my feet quite a bit during the day so that with the 30 mins might make me more moderate....I guess trial and error and see how it works!
  • staceypunk
    staceypunk Posts: 924 Member
    TDEE can be generally estimated for 95% of the population by multiplying your bodyweight by 14-16.... for women 14xBW=TDEE, men are usually in the 15xBW to 16xBW range... no need to get very complex with equations and such. You'll never be 100% right.

    If you are at a very high bodyfat percentage use the Katch-McArdle formula with Sedentary activity multiplier.


    I just did this very simplified version (14XBW) and it is spot on with numbers that I ran from other websites as well as numbers I got from a beach body coach. I think it was like a 15 calorie difference.
  • staceypunk
    staceypunk Posts: 924 Member
    Don't know what I did with the
    stuff, lol.

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