We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

HELP! Calorie Burn?

kailaburch89
kailaburch89 Posts: 69 Member
edited February 15 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all, i got UFC Fit Workout Dvd's yesterday but I cant find info anywhere on the calorie burn and dont know what to log it under :(
HELP?

Replies

  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    I would purchase a good HRM that counts calorie burns and log it manually accordingly.

    MFP numbers tend to be highly inflated anyway.
  • kailaburch89
    kailaburch89 Posts: 69 Member
    I cant buy one for 2 more weeks, so was hoping for something to log it under in the mean time :/
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    depending on what is in the workout choose Circut training (if there are body weight exercises + cardio) are calisthenics if it's mainly just cardio.
  • NicolaJaneSawdon
    NicolaJaneSawdon Posts: 1
    How do you manually set the amount of calories you burn?
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    How do you manually set the amount of calories you burn?

    Under the exercise tab you can "create" an exercise and make it anything you want.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    Choose an exercise and put the amount of minutes in the box to the right, then click on the box to the right of that and change the number. I do it all the time, because I burn less now that I'm lighter and fitter.
  • KettyLoyd
    KettyLoyd Posts: 51
    Exercise is the best option for burning calories. Stay away from junk food and soft drinks as they are very high in calories. Try to add less sugar in your daily tea. You can replace your daily tea with Green tea as it has no sugar and it also helps to burn calories.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    As far as I can tell caloric burn is just related to your heart rate which is related to your V02. If your heart gets to a certain rate it doesn't matter if you get it there by going for a run or doing Jujitsu Yoga X Extreme Ab Insanity or whatever it will be about the same calories. So yeah you can just log it as cardio and judge for yourself if you are gasping for breath or if you are just having a light sweat.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Exercise is the best option for burning calories. Stay away from junk food and soft drinks as they are very high in calories. Try to add less sugar in your daily tea. You can replace your daily tea with Green tea as it has no sugar and it also helps to burn calories.

    How do you know the OP drinks tea?
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Choose an exercise and put the amount of minutes in the box to the right, then click on the box to the right of that and change the number. I do it all the time, because I burn less now that I'm lighter and fitter.

    Actually, the database takes into account your weight already, as long as you've updated the fact you weigh less.

    Being fit or not has no bearing on burning calories. Merely shows where your HR is at for the effort.

    It does though have a bearing if it was really hard workout and carbs mainly burned, or easy and mainly fat burned.

    And being fit, you could likely do more or longer or actually harder or do it again tomorrow, compared to being unfit and can't do any of those.
  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    A good quality HRM is the best estimator of exercise... and even that is not perfect. This is not an exact science.. it gets close enough to determine probability for success if we try to be as accurate as possible though... It will get pretty close.

    If you cannot purchase an HRM, then find a standing exercise that seems to be as close to the activity level you experience performing the exercise and use that figure.

    Another thing -- when using videos for exercise, you only burn at the intensity rate that you put into it. One can perform tae-bo (for example) by "going through the motions" or by really putting strenuous effort into it. The exercise motion is the same but of course the result will be different. When estimating exercise, it is wise to UNDERESTIMATE burn but OVERESTIMATE intake... This is because most of the time, we do it the opposite. Our tendency is to be "nice" to ourselves and give ourselves the "benefit of the doubt"; unfortunately, the scale too often does not agree with our assessment.
This discussion has been closed.

Categories