Body fat % of 27.5

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  • Farburnfred
    Farburnfred Posts: 333 Member
    I did a strength training session this morning, with about 5 mins cardio either end for warm up cool down...342 calories according to my HRM :)

    I find HIIT very hard can do such short periods..30 secs or so..
    HRMs are no good for estimating calorie burn for strength training or even HIIT, unfortunately! They're meant to estimate calorie burn for low to medium intensity cardio. Your heart rate and calorie burn have a different relationship during strength training compared to medium intensity cardio.

    And HIIT is meant to be super hard... So if you find it very hard, you're doing it right!

    Yeah I kow HRM are not great for calorie counting when doing weights..but I need a ballpark figure as I know I ned to eat more on lifting days..
  • meags007
    meags007 Posts: 9
    Sounds like you're on the right track to me ... I got my bf down to 22% from 29% and my weight went down from 62 to 60kg (I'm 5ft5). All I did was weights 3x/week (with 10 mins warm up and cool down) and then a 1hr walk 2x/week and I tracked my calories religiously!
  • nexangelus
    nexangelus Posts: 2,080 Member
    Just found this, wondered how the OP was doing, as it has been a few months?

    Bodyfat % is more important to me than my weight per se. It looks like you had 100 pounds of lean mass. Just need to build that up with some heavy lifting and a good protein amount (100g per day) and patience. Easier to build from this base than go down and then try and increase lean mass again, if you see what I mean.

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