Why are the MFP exercise choices so limited??

Cevalite
Cevalite Posts: 9 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I do power interval yoga, HIIT, and other stuff for my workouts that MFP simply doesn't have tracking options for. Does anyone else have this issue? How do you track workouts then?

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  • MostlyWater
    MostlyWater Posts: 4,294 Member
    I make custom workouts for myself here.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    MFP uses general categories because calorie burns are guesstimates. Putting a more exact name on something doesn't necessarily make the calorie burn estimate any closer.

    You can make up your own. If you have a heart rate monitor, that's a pretty good guess for steady state cardio. Not such a good guess for other things though.
  • sheermomentum
    sheermomentum Posts: 827 Member
    MFP uses commonly available data that's been gathered over many years by several sources. Not every new video or workout combination that somebody comes up with gets lab tested for its average calorie burn. If in doubt, "calisthenics" covers alot of territory, and comes in light/moderate and vigorous flavors. One of those would cover your HIIT workout, depending on how intensely you are doing it. Yoga is pretty much yoga, but if you genuinely feel you are moving through poses at a pace that qualifies as cardio (which would only happen if you are almost dancing), you could log it as calisthenics as well. Otherwise, its probably more akin to strength training, and the calorie burn will be low.
  • kcjchang
    kcjchang Posts: 709 Member
    It's probably based some iteration found in the Compendium of Physical Activities. The collection, research studies, is limited in scope and application. Good luck on HIIT (the true application not just the hard interval training which most erroneously use the term for), it's very individualized.
  • Cevalite
    Cevalite Posts: 9 Member
    sheermomentum wrote: »
    MFP uses commonly available data that's been gathered over many years by several sources. Not every new video or workout combination that somebody comes up with gets lab tested for its average calorie burn. If in doubt, "calisthenics" covers alot of territory, and comes in light/moderate and vigorous flavors. One of those would cover your HIIT workout, depending on how intensely you are doing it. Yoga is pretty much yoga, but if you genuinely feel you are moving through poses at a pace that qualifies as cardio (which would only happen if you are almost dancing), you could log it as calisthenics as well. Otherwise, its probably more akin to strength training, and the calorie burn will be low.

    Ooh didn't thi to try calisthenics , but I'll give it a shot. Thanks !
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