Crossfit workouts

daveturton70
daveturton70 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
When it asks to input my exercises it's difficult because I go to a Crossfit box and the workouts are usually mixed. I noticed that the app doesn't even have the hero WOD's listed. How are people handling this part?

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  • CJ_Holmes
    CJ_Holmes Posts: 759 Member
    You won't be able to get an accurate calorie count for WODS, so don't bother. I would suggest just going with a conservative estimate- when I was counting exercise I would put 250 calories for a typical lifting/WOD hour, and 350 for a long slog or Hero WOD. Some of my pals just log the metcon part- like "7 min metcon" and give like 10 cal per minute. You can look up how many calories you burn at your size for a vigorous activity and use that as a baseline. Just be consistent with whatever calculation you choose and then you can change it if it seems you are losing or gaining weight in a way that's inconsistent with the numbers.

    I personally eat a set amount of calories and just enter "1" as calories burned during exercise. I figure I do a fairly consistent amount of work each week, so I don't add/subtract for exercise. This keeps it simple and avoids the mental trap of thinking of exercise as something I do to burn calories. You'll see people referring to this as the "TDEE method" vs. the "MFP method." I prefer it, but it's a personal thing. I do CrossFit to get stronger, faster, and better, and so I don't care about the burn aspect.
  • MilesAddie
    MilesAddie Posts: 166 Member
    What CJ said.

    It's not impossible, but it's really difficult and tedious to figure out. Some WODs are heavy on gymnastics, some heavy on oly lifts. Some are AMRAP, some are for time, and others TABATA. By definition Crossfit wods are constantly varied, and with the exception of benchmarks and heros, should not repeat themselves for at least a year or so, with some exceptions...

    Since I'm intentionally in a deficit, I assign a ratio of 1 calorie a minute for a WOD. As I get closer to my GW, I'll up that ratio until the numbers get even out. But since my WODs are never usually longer than 25 minutes, I've found it doesn't really matter.

    Pay attention to how you feel. Like other high intensity fitness disciplines, Crossfit requires quite a bit of energy, so performance and recovery will suffer in too high a deficit.


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