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When tracking your exercise, do you include the warm up & co

armydreamers
armydreamers Posts: 175 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Title pretty much says it all. Do you include the warm up and cool down period when you record the minutes you spent working out?

Thanks!

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  • FitToBeFab
    FitToBeFab Posts: 537 Member
    I don't because the intensity level isn't as high. My main exercise right now is the 30 day shred from Jillian Michaels, which has a 4 minute warm up and a 5 minute cool down, but it's mostly stretching so I don't count it.

    Even when I run, I don't count my warm up walk, only the time I'm actually running because that's when my heart rate is actually up.

    But that's just how I do things, you can do it how you want! :D
  • DizzieLittleLifter
    DizzieLittleLifter Posts: 1,020 Member
    :smile: Yeah, I count the warm up, but not the cool down. My HRM has the option to program a timed warm up and not count it, but I figure why not?
  • cmw72
    cmw72 Posts: 390 Member
    I don't really do much of a warm up. But since I use a HRM, I start it when I start exercising, so that would include any warm-up period.
  • rpolzin25
    rpolzin25 Posts: 19
    I count my warm up and cool down as mild stretching.
  • LifeChanges42
    LifeChanges42 Posts: 636 Member
    I count my warm up and cool down as mild stretching.

    I do the same.
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I count my warm up and cool down as mild stretching.

    I do the same.

    me too!
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I don't really do much of a warm up. But since I use a HRM, I start it when I start exercising, so that would include any warm-up period.

    I start mine when I open the door to the gym. WHAT??? There are stairs going up to the workout room!! :laugh:
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