Press ups

SaraLevel10
SaraLevel10 Posts: 16 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone know how many calories you burn if you did 20 pressups? Xx thanks

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  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Not enough to worry about it.
  • SaraLevel10
    SaraLevel10 Posts: 16 Member
    It's all I can do at the moment with good form
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    Not enough to worry about it.

    Yep.
  • holothuroidea
    holothuroidea Posts: 772 Member
    edited January 2016
    Calisthenics burn calories based on time spent at a certain intensity, not by number of movements.

    If you're doing less than 10-15 sustained minutes of exercise it is part of your daily activity and there is no need to log the calories burned.
  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    SaraLevel10 wrote: »
    It's all I can do at the moment with good form

    Nothing wrong with that. But focusing on just the calorie burn is missing the big picture. The journey is about getting healthier, not just losing weight / burning calories.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    SaraLevel10 wrote: »
    It's all I can do at the moment with good form

    Is that all you're doing? Just some push ups? Doing 20 push ups every day isn't going to achieve too much, calorie burn or body conditioning wise.
  • fiddletime
    fiddletime Posts: 1,868 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    SaraLevel10 wrote: »
    It's all I can do at the moment with good form

    Is that all you're doing? Just some push ups? Doing 20 push ups every day isn't going to achieve too much, calorie burn or body conditioning wise.

    I think it's great that you do 20 a day. I wouldn't log that small amount of time. If I do body beast DVD I put in 98 calories, whether it's 30 or 40 minutes. For me, that seems to be the right number and I continue to lose weight. Keep working out and add to it!
  • SaraLevel10
    SaraLevel10 Posts: 16 Member
    I did more than the push ups but wasn't very much else I admit. I'm doing the push ups to strength my arms to be honest so not really trying to burn calories as I do other exercise in the week. Thanks for all the responses xx

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