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Calories burnt post workout. Log them or not?

Jossies01
Jossies01 Posts: 81 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
According to my HRM I've burnt an extra 250 calories in the 15 mins after my workout as my heart rate slowly came back down. Do I log that or just the calories burnt during the actual work out?

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,487 Member
    I am going to assume that you did something really vigorous for 15 additonal minutes to burn 250 calories... that sounds like a lot ...

    If it is part of your steady state exercise do what you feel is best.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    250 cals in 15 minutes of cool down?? I agree with Gia that it seems really high. What sort of workout did you do, how did you cool down after, and what sort of HRM do you have?

  • Jossies01
    Jossies01 Posts: 81 Member
    I did an insanity dvd, Plyometric Cardio Circuit. I have a Fitbit ChargeHR
  • Jossies01
    Jossies01 Posts: 81 Member
    Oh and I did the cool down at the end of the dvd (stretches and what not), then I just walked round the house until I felt my heart rate dropped off enough. I don't like just sitting straight afterward as I notice my muscles get sore the next day but if I keep moving for a while and slowly cool down it helps with that.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited May 2015
    SJCNSG wrote: »
    According to my HRM I've burnt an extra 250 calories in the 15 mins after my workout as my heart rate slowly came back down. Do I log that ...?

    NO.

    And if it's telling you 250 calories during the cooldown, don't eat back all the "actual" burn calories, either.
  • mwyvr
    mwyvr Posts: 1,883 Member
    Sounds high. Way high. Just because your heart rate is up doesn't mean you are burning anywhere near the rate you were burning while performing your workout.

    I vote with my calorie "wallet" so to speak, I never even think about post workout calorie burn let alone log them.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    SJCNSG wrote: »
    Oh and I did the cool down at the end of the dvd (stretches and what not), then I just walked round the house until I felt my heart rate dropped off enough.

    That's not a good indicator, your HR should have been down to normal before you finished the stretching.

  • Jossies01
    Jossies01 Posts: 81 Member
    MeanderingMammal wrote: »
    SJCNSG wrote: »
    Oh and I did the cool down at the end of the dvd (stretches and what not), then I just walked round the house until I felt my heart rate dropped off enough.

    That's not a good indicator, your HR should have been down to normal before you finished the stretching.

    I'm pretty sure i'm good. Just googled it and my HR drops off at what Is apparently considered normal time frame for someone that has done a high intensity workout (dropping around 20-30bpm).
  • Jossies01
    Jossies01 Posts: 81 Member
    Im just going to eat back half the calories I burn from not on just in case its inaccurate. I don't normally count the after workout calories, I just happened to look at it today and thought "wow did I really burn that in 15 mins? Should I log that?"
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    About 98% of the studies performed on post-exercise calorie burn show that the TOTAL amount --and this is over 24+ hours-- is about 75-125 calories, whether it's HIIT, weight lifting, whatever. And EPOC is just another of the many, many situations for which HRMs are useless and inaccurate.
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
    no

    250 calories in 15 mins would equate to a rate of 1000 calories an hour....you would struggle to expend that much actually exercising let alone just cooling down from a workout.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    SJCNSG wrote: »
    "wow did I really burn that in 15 mins? Should I log that?"

    No you didn't and no you shouldn't.
    Sounds like you have a remarkably useless HRM to be honest!

    Burning 250 in 15minutes of intense exercise takes a high level of fitness.
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