Logging p90x Calories

I did p90x last year...i just didn't log it at all and just kept my cals at 1800. I did the whole nutrition plan as well, are you? In the guide book they say to estimate that each workout is like 500 calories i think but I am not so sure about that. The nutrition guide told me to eat 1800, so that is what i did, and didnt eat more if i exercised so logging it was really pointless. if you log it then you will think you have that much more to eat but the p90x nutrtion plan isn't supposed to have you eating back what you burn.

If you aren't doing the whole nutrition plan along with the exercises, I would just log only your cardio days (kenpo, plyo,cardio x etc) as about 500 calories and just not log your strength days. Its better to underestimate your burn than over estimate it.

I check my heartrate during typical portions of the workout to get an average heartrate. Then I use this link to estimate my calorie burn for each workout. I figure it's close enought to accurate for myfitnesspal entries and since the number of calories burned sort of amazes me I tend to round the minutes down (ie., don't include the warm up cool down time). Plyo is hands down the best calorie burn for me. Good luck and keep pushing play!

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx


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A heartrate monitor will be inaccurrate during strength training. It only measures how hard your heart is working, estimating how much "work" you may be doing but strength training doesnt raise your heart rate as much as cardio does...so it will not be accurate. It is really not possible to accurately measure calories burned in strength training.

I have been confused by this too, becuase I am not able to do all the moves/reps to completion. I just ordered a bodybugg to help with figuring it out. It was on sale for $149 which included 6mo membership. I can't wait to get it so that I can get a better idea of what I am actually burning.

you could log using calistenics (spelling?). I think there are two options to choose from. Probably closest existing option.

I use a heart rate monitor to get my cals. All the cardio days burn alot more cals for me then the strength training days. I dont follolw the nutrition plan exactly but definitely eat healthily and have upped my cals.

Good Luck

I"m 45, 5`4, 149lb female and the strength training days burn between 350 to 450 and cardio days 400 to 650 as per my HRM. Just to give some idea. Yoga X was between 250 and 350.

I agree with everyone, buy a heart rate monitor. The one with the chest strap is more accurate. But that way, you know exactly what you are burning.

I started P90x again two weeks ago.. go on amazon and get the $40< Timex heart rate monitor, a basic one with a chest strap works fine. I monitor mine during the workouts, sometimes he will say what his HR is too, so you can compare against 45yr old Tony. I use the nearest setting, as others said calisthenics at 55mns, which using my HRM comes out to about 650kcal during the session. I just keep using that same one, and you can add what EXACTLY you did in the comments section to keep track. I've been sticking to a 1700 cal diet, doing 600-800kcal workouts daily... and using fooducate to buy better foods.

I just ordered a bodybugg to help with figuring it out.
I can't wait to get it so that I can get a better idea of what I am actually burning.

Hate to tell you, this won't help much. it will read the arm movements as walking/jogging depending on how frequent it is.
It will then base that movement on tables for walking/jogging and your weight, and what the calorie estimate is.

You will get a greatly exagerrated figure.

You should have seen my figures on it for a day's worth of cutting down a 6 headed tree and chainsawing the logs.
Never much of a workout, never got too hot besides it being warm out, never a high heart rate, not moving fast.
But plenty of arm movements up/down/around.

Had estimates of cal/min burns almost twice what I've seen on a very strenous bike ride, or hill sprint running session.

I stopped wearing it even though I prepaid for the yearly service to get a deal.

Oh, the heat measurement it claims, not used in their algorithms right now. I've proven that. Besides the fact extrapolating the amount of heat coming to a possible square 1/4 inch of skin to what your body is actually doing would be so inaccurate anyway, probably the reason it never showed up.
Galvanic skin response to see if sweating. Forget it, used to tell if you have it on or not. Just don't forget to put it on and allow it to touch the arm band where you laid it. That happened twice, and the company said indeed that will show as being on-body, and asleep since not moving. So while that senser is obviously sensetive if the armband reads like an arm, it isn't used either.

For those doing the p90x with HRM, doesn't the HR actually get up to about 90 or above? I thought it was mix of strength and cardio?
In studies, 90 bpm is like the lower limit for accuracy for HR to be calculated to calories, so it could be very valid to wear the HRM.
You just aren't going to get the calculations for the all day fat burn you get from doing strength/interval type training.