Focus T25 - Logging the workouts

JuliaChang9
JuliaChang9 Posts: 2 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Has anyone found an easier way to log in the different exercises from T25 into the myfitnesspal log?

I really don't want to manually enter every single movement Shaun has us do ...

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  • dsendre
    dsendre Posts: 173 Member
    The key is getting a heart rate monitor. You want to log what you did - not what someone else did while doing the same exercises. The only way is by tracking your average heart rate over the course of your exercise and calculating the calories burned. Most heart rate monitors available will do the calories burned calculation for you or you can find "calories burned by heart rate" calculators online by doing a google search.

    Then, in MFP, you click on Exercise->My Exercises and then click on Create Exercise. You then give your exercise a name, "T25 Speed 1.0", for example then enter the amount of workout time and the calories burned. You only have to do this once for each new exercise and then the exercises will be listed in your exercises on MFP. Each time you do the workout from then on, all you change is the calories burned when logging.

    Hope that helps!
  • kcm105
    kcm105 Posts: 50 Member
    I agree with getting a heart rate monitor, but I understand that's not always feasible. For most of the workouts you can log them as simply aerobics - vigorous. Keep in mind this is probably overestimating the actual calories you have burned, but I suppose you take what you can get.

    I haven't gotten out of Alpha phase, so I can't advise you on anything beyond that. But in Alpha, I feel that only Ab Intervals doesn't qualify as vigorous aerobics. Pretty much everything else is high impact. For Ab Intervals you can log it as calisthenics. I actually do that myself even though I have a HRM since they aren't very reliable at calculating calorie burns on anything but sustained aerobic exercise. But again, it's probably an over-estimation of what you've actually burned.

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