Jillian Michaels Body Revolution - Calories Burned???

As far as I know...Most everyone logs it as Circuit Training and puts in the amount of time. :-)

I agree...list under circuit training, minus the warm up/cool down time.

I would be really careful eating back/using all the calories it gives you under circuit training. I use a heart rate monitor when I do her DVDs and usually come up at about half the calories than MFP would give me if I just entered the time under Circuit training and letting it calculate the calories.

For example, I did Banish Fat Boost Metabolism today, 55 min and burned 365 calories according to the HRM, MFP would have calculated 750.

To answer italiankrys' question...I'm on the same program and researched it.

JILLIAN SAYS: It's all relative to your age, body weight, height, gender, and so on. The general rule of thumb is, for every 25 pounds of weight you have on your frame, you will burn an additional 50 calories an hour provided you work out at the same intensity for the entire hour.

For example, I weigh 120 pounds — which is almost 5 groups of 25 pounds — so if I multiply 50 calories by 5 for 250 calories, then divide that per-hour amount by 60 it comes out to slightly more than 4 calories a minute.

I tried Tammy's formula and got 141, MFP says 255 - so yeah almost double. This explains a lot.

It varies from person to person too. Depends on your fitness level and the intensity that you are working out. I found when I purchased a Heart Rate Monitor that for some exercises my fitness pal was pretty close to the same thing but for others it is totally over and sometimes even less.

thanks for the discussion, all very helpful.

on my HRM it says i burned 108 for the first workout on phase 1. so i'm not sure how some people are getting 200+. I will do the second workout today and see...i'm on week 2.

Lots of helpful info here! I've been thinking of getting a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) formself. Howeer, if the price that someone stated they paid for a HRM is the standard price, I think it he awhile before I can get one! :frown:

JILLIAN SAYS: It's all relative to your age, body weight, height, gender, and so on. The general rule of thumb is, for every 25 pounds of weight you have on your frame, you will burn an additional 50 calories an hour provided you work out at the same intensity for the entire hour.

For example, I weigh 120 pounds — which is almost 5 groups of 25 pounds — so if I multiply 50 calories by 5 for 250 calories, then divide that per-hour amount by 60 it comes out to slightly more than 4 calories a minute.

I like the idea of using this formula better than relying on the HRM. Note that Jillian says an 'ADDITIONAL' 50 cals an hour - that means above what you would normally burn if you just sat on the sofa doing nothing.
For example - my weight is 179lbs, which, using Jillian's formula is roughly 7 x 25 = 350 additional calories burned per hour, divided by 2 gives me 175 calories for the 30 minute workout. My HRM usually puts it around 230, but I figure some of that I would have burned just living, and some of that would be due to heart rate spikes, so I'm going to just log the 175 calories to eat back.

Help so I did Julian Michaels revolution day 2 and also did cardio day 1 the help speed up my metabolism. My I watch said I burned a total of 551 calories, but then said active calories are 418. Which would be correct?