High Intensity Workouts

Sj1701
Sj1701 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Hey! I'm Male, 20 and I just started using this app and I thing it's great! The one thing I still haven't figured out yet is the excercise section... It counts + 128 calories for the 'excercise' that I do, however I do 'freeletics', that's a form of high intensity workouts that trigger an 'after- burn effect' I don't know if you have heard of that but basically keep burning a certain amount of calories after I worked out since these are short but very intense compound excercises. With other words: how do I let the app know that I burn much more calories than 128 over the week? Please help! Sorry for the long post

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  • TCO76
    TCO76 Posts: 242 Member
    I'd give whoever sold you that bs, they're money back. Or just manually add in these insanely high numbers that you speak of.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,134 Member
    Calories in and calories out is just an estimate no matter how much or less a particular guide says. When dealing with estimates, it is important to use some reasoning, come up with something and move on. After a few weeks, if you’re not seeing the results you expect, tweak things.

    Things to look for and know you’re on track:
    - body measurements are going the way you want
    - clothes fit differently
    - you feel good
    - you sleep well
    - your energy is sufficient to allow you to train hard
    - other people start commenting on your improvements
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    You cna just google the freeletic calorie burns. It seems to be impossible to estimate from session to session as they are different as well as the individuals. You are going to have to monitor the results and adjust accordingly, but after brun calories are also difficult to calculate. MFP isnt good at calculating many normal burns as its only an estimator.

    I think you can enter numbers manually, so trial and error, but you should be conservative or ypu will end up awarding yourself calories you havent burned. You cna use google to find out the bits you want.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,865 Member
    Sj1701 wrote: »
    ...how do I let the app know that I burn much more calories than 128 over the week?

    Excess Post exercise Oxygen Consumption is vastly overplayed. You might get somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of additional compared with 3 to 6 percent for steady state exercise.

    If you really want to add it then manually adjust the extra 6 calories in to the entry.
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