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    Help, me with logging strength/cardio exercises!!!!

    Posts: 6
    edited February 13 in Fitness and Exercise
    I'm getting really annoyed!!! How do I record butterfly stretches & starfish touch toes and resistance band exercises. I'm starting to do a lot of these types of workouts and it's so hard to record them.. Erraw! I tried creating but no calories showed were burned. Please help me.

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    • Posts: 1,566 Member
      find an online calculator to determine what the burn is enter the info then it will be in your data base to use again later - I don't think that MFP has a data base for specific exercises - if you are doing a 30 min routine with bands for strength training you can probably find the info online to calculate it and just make one entry

      http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calories_burned.htm

      try that one
    • Posts: 1,237 Member
      I'm getting really annoyed!!! How do I record butterfly stretches & starfish touch toes and resistance band exercises. I'm starting to do a lot of these types of workouts and it's so hard to record them.. Erraw! I tried creating but no calories showed were burned. Please help me.
      Calories burned doesn't come up in the strength training part as they are pretty negligible anyway, if you overestimate on every little exercise and eat the calorie back you will be thwarting yourself.
      That being said you can type "strength training" into the cardio section and log it that way to get a calorie burn approximate number if you want.
    • Posts: 1,237 Member
      Also, you could log the stretches as "stretching, hatha yoga" in the cardio section
    • Posts: 119 Member
      Get a good HRM, and go by that. I think that would be more accurate than guessing.
    • Posts: 6
      Thanks guys! Very helpful.
    • Posts: 6
      Any suggestion on what to look for when purchasing a heart monitor? Bells & whistles or basic?
    • Posts: 119 Member
      Polar makes a very good product.
      Get one with the chest heart rate strap they are more accurate,


      http://www.polar.com/us-en
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