Cardio with added weights

SeasideOasis
SeasideOasis Posts: 1,057 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I plan on dusting off my Turbo Jam DVDs for nights when I cannot make it to the gym for one reason or another due to time.

When I do the Turbo Jam DVDs, MFP already has an approximate setting for that DVD. However, over the years, I have been known to add ankle weights, as well as hand weights, in order to intensify by workout. Believe you me, I am usually dead after :laugh: :ohwell:

Because I am adding weights (5 lbs per leg, 3 pounds per hand) for the full length of the video, do you think that should be counted into "strength training" in order to show the added calories being burned? I do not have a HRM, as of yet, so that isnt an option yet (though, when I do get it, I plan on testing this later).

What do you think?

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  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    I do the same thing with my Turbo Fire. I still do heavy weight lifting but I'm curious to see what people say here.
  • kao708
    kao708 Posts: 813 Member
    I'd say it would burn more calories but I wouldn't count any extra until you get the HRM and can adequately judge the difference. Counting this as 2 different exercises could backfire. Especially since most people say MFP over estimates calories burned.
  • mursey
    mursey Posts: 191 Member
    I don't think your calories are ever correct unless you're wearing a heart rate monitor. When I work out, I always use one. But, if I just walked a long distance running errands, I don't have a HRM on so I just have to use whatever MFP has in the site, which I am sure is always pretty inaccurate.

    When I go to the gym and do cardio and strength training, I don't always want to log every single thing I have done, so I just made a category for me called "combo strength training and cardio" and I just put in how many calories I burned according to my HRM for the whole time I was at the gym. I log that under the "Cardio" part of the exercise diary. I don't think it matters where you put strength training except for your own personal notes. It doesn't look like it counts any calories unless it's logged under the Cardio category, even if it isn't technically cardio. Does that make sense?
  • sm26davis
    sm26davis Posts: 52
    When I do turbo jam i use hand weights and I can burn 700+ depending on how much energy I have! I've just logged it under cardio.
  • snowflakelaia
    snowflakelaia Posts: 214
    Everybody burns a different amount of calories depending on the height and weight, and also how intense is the workout, and how long it lasts.

    Sometimes for the same length of time I've burned 100 kcal more than other days... I use a HRM and now I really know if I'm working out hard enough and if I stay in the range I'm aiming for.

    I do not do the intense cardio workouts with weights on my legs, I usually jump higher or focus on keeping perfect form and strengthen the core. Whenever I've used weights, I just get my arms tired, but I lose a bit on the form; thus, I only do that from time to time.

    I'm sure someone here will be able to help you!
    Good luck!
    ^_^
  • foxxybrown
    foxxybrown Posts: 838 Member
    No, you can't get credit twice.
  • SeasideOasis
    SeasideOasis Posts: 1,057 Member
    When I do turbo jam i use hand weights and I can burn 700+ depending on how much energy I have! I've just logged it under cardio.

    Is that projected number from a HRM? I'm just curious.
  • SeasideOasis
    SeasideOasis Posts: 1,057 Member
    No, you can't get credit twice.

    Its not twice the credit for one activity, really.

    If you did weight machines, then did cardio, you burn calories doing both so they would be logged as so. Im trying to figure out in peoples opinion, without an HRM so that I can get the accurate number for the amount of calories burned, how they would log it, because if you add resistance, on an elliptical for example, you tend to burn more calories if you continue at the same speed. Its the same thing, but with weights.

    It isn't like I think that if I burned 500 calories from Turbo Jam, that I would log it as 1000 calories with weights. That isn't realistic. Strength training under cardio just has a smaller amount of calories, which is why I am using that terminology, that may match the added calories one might burn when adding weights.

    Gurr...this would all be easier if I had my HRM already :explode: :grumble: :noway: :ohwell:
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