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Workout level

skincy
Posts: 108 Member
This is my workout routine ( i run alot because I do marathons.
Monday OFF
Tuesday Run 8 miles
Wednesday OFF
Thursday Run 5 miles/Lifting 30 minutes
Friday OFF
Saturday Crosstrain 60-80 min/30 minutes Lifting
Sunday Long Run anywhere between 10-20 miles
Is my exercise level heavy or moderate? ususally they save heavy exercise is 6-7 days but on the days I do exercise it is pretty long. So I trying to get my TDEE right. Also is the Fat2Fit or Scooby Calculator better? I get about a 200 calories difference on what I should eat to lose.
Monday OFF
Tuesday Run 8 miles
Wednesday OFF
Thursday Run 5 miles/Lifting 30 minutes
Friday OFF
Saturday Crosstrain 60-80 min/30 minutes Lifting
Sunday Long Run anywhere between 10-20 miles
Is my exercise level heavy or moderate? ususally they save heavy exercise is 6-7 days but on the days I do exercise it is pretty long. So I trying to get my TDEE right. Also is the Fat2Fit or Scooby Calculator better? I get about a 200 calories difference on what I should eat to lose.
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Start at the high end of moderate for a few weeks, if you start losing then you know, if nothing then increase to active level and try there for a few weeks (if nothing there increase to higher calories).. your weekends are pretty intense.
I did glance at your diary, you may want to try getting some more protein in there and stuff.. I know people lose weight eating all that stuff you are.. but if you don't see any progress you may want to change your menu. And I use Scooby's calculator.0 -
Thanks! Yeah, I have my moments of not getting enough protein and I go back and forth with healthy and not so healthy, never really that bad
I was trying to do one thing at a time, work on the calorie level and then maybe getting better with macros.
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I'd actually suggest that trying to spread out the big calorie burn day to all week doesn't work well in the long run (pun intended). You really need those extra calories post workout on those hard days, before your next workout.
I'd suggest count 1 hr of the days in to the TDEE estimate level, so 4 hrs - Moderately Active.
Then on days the workout goes over 1 hr, eat back the extra on those days, with the same 15% deficit.
So if the long run burned 1500 calories in 3 hrs, that's 2 hrs or 1000 eat-back, less 15%, so 850 cal extra that day, mainly after the workout.
Yes that seems like a lot, but it should be no problem, that's only 4 Clif bars, 2 of them after the workout, and slightly bigger dinner. Or bar and cup of chocolate milk - great recovery because both have carb:protein ratio of 4:1, which is best for recovery.
The difference between fat2fit and Scooby is fat2fit uses least accurate Harris BMR as foundation to math, Scooby uses Mifflin, or you can get bodyfat estimate and use Katch BMR.
Or you can use this for all in one place and track progress, get HRM tab setup to see best estimate of calorie burns and HR zone ranges, ect.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/961054-spreadsheet-for-bodyfat-bmr-tdee-progress-tracker0 -
Thanks! great info! I actually was thinking about eating less during the week and eating a little more after my long runs0
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