Logging beachbody workouts.

You should be able to get in the ballpark by entering circuit training in the app and the time spent doing the workout. Any "calories spent" provided by this or any device should be viewed as a best-guess. Since without extensive medical testing that is essentially what it is. If you are eating back your exercise calories you will have to adjust the amount you eat back based the scale/mirror test because of the imprecise nature of calories expended counting. Additionally, many on MFP think it tends to over-estimate calories burned (I am in this camp also). A good way to start is eating back only 50% of the calories and see how steady the weight loss is.

burningrye wrote: »

Thanks for posting this question. I was having the same issue. I don't understand why we can log specific brands for food, but we can't log specific workouts for exercise. I am sure there are enough people that have done beach body, P90x, Jillian Michaels, Insanity and other videos that it would be easier for people to choose from the database.

The reason is the names of those workouts have no bearing on the calories burned, while name brand foods have specific caloric totals.

In the end, it would just be an endless number of circuit style workouts of different names with the same calculation for calories burned. There are too many variables in calculating calories burned to justify having all the different names of circuits to choose from. That is why they have just the one formula they work from.

Been using Beachbody videos for years. I create all workouts under cardio bc it was the only one that would let me enter calories(at least this was the case when I started). I then wear a polar ft7 HRM for all workouts and manually key results into MFP.