Should I eat these calories?

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Allegi32
Allegi32 Posts: 302 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello!

I did a P90X workout today that was a resistance workout. It's shoulders and arms, but it does make you sweat! However, my new heart rate monitor says I burned 770 calories in one hour of this workout, plus an ab workout (15 minutes long). I find it VERY unlikely that I burned that much, but I did burn some.

I can't add it as strength training because it's more complicated than what MFP asks for. But on the other hand, I wouldn't say it's conditioning either.

How should I add this? And should I eat more to compensate for that workout today?

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  • LillysGranny
    LillysGranny Posts: 431
    try entering it as circuit training if you don't trust your hrm
  • AFitasticYou
    AFitasticYou Posts: 170
    I put it in as strength training. I don't have a heart rate monitor... It only gives me around 200 if I remember correctly and then 140ish for ARX.

    If you don't think you burned that much, which it sounds like alot to me too, I wouldn't eat them all. Maybe just half..
  • Buckeyt
    Buckeyt Posts: 473 Member
    I wouldn't rely on the HR monitor for resistance workouts. Weight lifting burns calories differently than cardio workouts.
  • Allegi32
    Allegi32 Posts: 302 Member
    Thank you!!!

    I didn't realize I could actually put in "strength training" under the cardio workouts. It gave me about 300 calories, which seems MUCH more accurate.
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