Calories for pushups

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darinr80
darinr80 Posts: 11 Member
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I do a lot of push-ups and ab exercises that use my body weight. The only calorie burning workout I can log calories burnt is running because I don't know how many calories the other stuff burns. Does someone know?

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  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
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    not many
  • HamsterManV2
    HamsterManV2 Posts: 449 Member
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    Negligible. If you are cutting, don't factor it in calories burned. Same with if you are bulking.
  • CindyFooWho
    CindyFooWho Posts: 179 Member
    edited July 2016
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    If you do a sustained workout of that type of thing, perhaps a half hour in duration, without stopping, I'd log it. You might select "Les Mills CXWORX" from the MFP database. I do that workout regularly and it's similar to what you describe. However, it is a solid 30 minutes of exercising, without stopping. My heart rate is elevated the whole time. If you're just dropping and doing 30 pushups and nothing else, I would not log something like that.

    Now, you still won't get a ton of calories, but you might earn yourself a glass of wine or an ice cream sandwich :smile:
  • darinr80
    darinr80 Posts: 11 Member
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    Okay so it's part of a routine I built for myself that's at least a solid 30 minute routine I love. Here it is: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s12/sh/6a452aaf-38ad-40a2-aaef-58cec8b19697/70ff339b120c3f51422ed506c1913747

    The surf fit is this consisting of 12 exercises on the Swiss ball: https://youtu.be/bJxWhVzg9J0

    And the 6 pack promise is 5 minutes of this: 6 Pack Promise - Ultimate Abs by Sports Performance Factory LLC
    https://appsto.re/us/fj0XL.i

    So all of that is one workout. Then I log calories for running 6 miles 3-4 times a week and surfing.
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
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    I find I burn very few calories on body weight exercises. But I log them, with a random 1 for calorie burn, so that I can at least keep track of my activity minutes throughout the day.
  • dreaming13000
    dreaming13000 Posts: 68 Member
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    It's not many. I wear a heart rate monitor and when doing about work or push-ups, it will slow considerably. Now use the ability machine and you'll get higher calorie burns with that.

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