Manual Exercise Entries?

swilkinson96
swilkinson96 Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Good morning! I was wondering if there is a way to enter exercise manually for activities that are not specifically listed. I have programs for my treadmill that I would like to track by time/intensity/calories burned. I can't really track it by time and mph because the programs start out slowly, increase in mph and intensity, and then slow down. They range from30-60 minutes, but the intensity changes a lot within each workout. Thank you for any help you can give me!

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  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    I can only see entering your treadmill workouts as 10 minutes at speed x, 20 minutes at speed y, and 30 minutes at speed z. Look at the clock while doing your workout and estimate time spent at various speeds. Exercise calorie burns listed here are generic estimates.

    For steady state cardio calorie burns a heart rate monitor will be your best estimate. Most people here don't really count on MFP calorie burn estimates as being accurate. Eat back a consistent % of exercise calories and (over time) get a feel for what the real number is.
  • Silent_Soliloquy
    Silent_Soliloquy Posts: 237 Member
    If it's YOUR treadmill and has your height and weight entered, the calorie burn is close. (Within 1.5% of what my garmin tells me).

    So to enter manually just pick any jogging speed on the mfp list and enter whatever # of minutes equals your calorie burn accd. To the treadmill. Maybe itll say 45 minutes instead of 55... but the calories will be right.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,547 Community Helper
    You can add your own exercises for your personal use. Look for "create an exercise" on the exercise search page in the phone app. In the web app, you have to search for a (nonexistant) exercise name, then it will give you a page with a link near the bottom that says "Add an exercise to the database". That link takes you to a page where you can create your own exercise (which can have a different name than the one you searched for, BTW)

    Once you create the exercise, with a certain number of calories per X minutes, MFP will scale the same calorie burn rate to the minutes you put in next time. (For example, if you say 10 minutes burns 10 calories the first time, and you report 5 minutes the next time, it will give you 5 calories.)
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