p90x

mlasher98
mlasher98 Posts: 4 Member
edited October 5 in Fitness and Exercise
Hi all i am new to this so please bare with me and if I am posting in the wrong place i am sorry. I have been doing P90X for a week now but I cant find it in the exercise portion to get credit for calories burned. although many of this is strength tarining it is over an hour long and reguires cardio for stamina and deffinite calories are burned. I have had to back off MFP becuase I was losing to much wieght to fast with no energy becuase of what they are saying my calorie intake is and I think that it is partly because I can't register alot of my calories so I can eat more :happy:

If anyone know a solution to get my calories counted that I burn from P90X that would be great. Or if anyone know how to calculate and get it added to the list of activiites.

Sorry this is so long. I love MFP and would love to keep going

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  • MobileRanger
    MobileRanger Posts: 37
    You should be adding about 600 calories a day when you do P90X. I know that seems like a lot, but trust me, your body needs it. I recently finished P90X myself, dropping 25lbs, and getting down to 10% body fat. I did this by setting my wieght goal in my fitness pal to the weight I wanted to get to, and adding 600 calories for every full workout I did. Hope it helps. A big mistake a lot of people doing P90X make is not eating enough. You have to eat a lot, a lot of the right stuff that is. Also, get a good recovery drink, something with some createin in it. It'll do wonders after a good workout.
  • kcaldaba
    kcaldaba Posts: 3
    I wear a heart rate monitor that counts calories, and I enter each workout as cardio, with the calories burned. You're likely to burn more in some of the true cardio programs like Plyometrics. For example, today was chest and back, and I burned 400 calories, which I entered as a cardio program. The important thing is to give yourself credit for the calories burned so that youn keep an accurate count of net calories for each day. I'm starting week 9 and the combination of P90x with counting calories on MFP defintely works.

    Good luck!
  • mbody1
    mbody1 Posts: 12
    I just began p90x too and I am following their portion plan and not concentrating too much on entering in everything correctly in MFP. p90x outlines the eating plan well and takes into account how much you should be eating on the program.
  • alyssa92982
    alyssa92982 Posts: 1,093 Member
    A heart rate monitor is your best option. Everyone burns a different amount due to different body sizes. I'm not going to burn 600. Calories a workout whereas someone who weighs 200 lbs probably would. I too am not accurate with my estimates for calorie burns on the workouts I am getting a heart rate monitor for christmas tho:-) for now log your strength days under strength training and all cardio in aerobics high impact. Ab ripper is sit up-vigorous and yoga x under yoga. Kenpo I log it as kickboxing or karate. Good luck!
  • mlasher98
    mlasher98 Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks everyone this has been really helpful. I will have to look into a heart monitor. I have one that goes with my garmin watch but don't know if it will work when i am not running or biking as far as counting calories. I will try it tonight.

    Thanks everyone.
  • MobileRanger
    MobileRanger Posts: 37
    Heart rate monitors are great for carido days, however on strength days with weights they do not give you an accurate account of calories burned. When you lift weights your body continues to burn calories all day and night, repairing the muscles you just ripped apart, so if your HRM says you lost 400 lifting weights you should deffinatley log more than that.
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