Martial arts logging question?

TK266
TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
edited September 24 in Fitness and Exercise
How do you log your Martial Arts practice and sparing?

I usually am in class for about 2 hours, but that includes stretching warm-up, practicing moves, watching other practice moves and then actual sparing/fighting. I have been logging it as roughly 20 minutes of Calisthenics or circuit training depending on the day, but only count the actual time on the mat fighting as the martial arts time. It is usually 20-30 minutes.

How do you all do it?

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  • chellekoren
    chellekoren Posts: 273 Member
    I train in kung fu and I have same issue with logging. I round down just to be on the safe side. It also depends on the day. Some days are so non-stop in there that I log it as a full 1 1/2 to 2 hour session of martial arts. We do calisthenics one day a week, so that is easy to log. We call it full body day and it is one day of say 100 monkey squats, 1000 bicycles, lines of army crawl, etc. for about 2 hours. I don't round down on that because it feels non stop and brutal the entire time. On the flip side, one day is comprised of perfecting your form after warm-up, which CAN be slower paced. In that case, I round down by about half. I am moving a lot but I'm not choking on my heart. ;) I hope that helps.

    I LOVE KUNG FU!!!!
    Chelle
  • tinovr
    tinovr Posts: 38 Member
    I take Tae Kwon Do.. I usually log 10 min of mild stretching, then 40 min of TKD for our 50 minute class. Our classes also vary from relatively easy to downright difficult. I figure it all averages out in the end...

    My wife once used a heart rate monitor to log calories during one class and it overestimated versus MFP by a good 20%.. so I feel that the MFP calories are a bit on the low side for a typical class.

    the other thing one can do is not "eat the exercise calories".. I'm on a 1750 cpd diet... whether I train or not, I try not to go over this value. That way, whether it's an easy or difficult class, the exact amt of exercise calories doesn't really matter.
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