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    Tracking calories burned for a workout

    Posts: 387 Member
    edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    Hi!

    I just completed a shoulder workout on jetfit. I manually inserted my workout into my MFP diary, but I have no idea how to calculate calories burned. Any suggestions?

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    • Posts: 14,517 Member
      Just use a general category and MFP will provide a guesstimate. Categories like strength training, circuit training, aerobics, yoga, etc.
    • Posts: 387 Member
      Thanks tea!
    • Posts: 1,360 Member
      Ugh, guesstimating the calories burned is awful. I've found that MFP over exaggerates calories burned and I don't have a fancy chest strap heart rate monitor so I too must estimate. I do the same as suggested - look it up in MFP and then I lower it. Good luck and keep it up
    • Posts: 744 Member
      It's calories in and calories out ... my concern is that I'll over eat my calories out (based on the gestimates) and that I will sabotage myself. So, I don't include the energy expended any more.
    • Posts: 8,359 Member
      If this was a strength training workout, the calories burned are not going to be that much, especially if this was a shoulder workout as you mentioned. I personally wouldn't log any calories for it.
    • Posts: 387 Member
      I figured it won't be much, I'm just trying to be consistent in logging. Whether it's food or any form of exercise. I find that if I don't go all in, I tend to get distracted.
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