WTF MFP??

aloisk57 · June 2012

So I really am getting into using MFP to track my calories. However, I'm a little nervous about the work-out calories! I know it's just a loose guide, but how the heck do you figure out how many calories you burned for something like bootcamp?? I do an hour of bootcamp 1-2 mornings a week, but I just classify it as kickboxing and say I did 20-30 minutes of it (I figure better to under-estimate than over-). But then I'm worried that I didn't even burn 200-300 calories during bootcamp!

How do you track your non-standard activities? I'm totally cool with the running calories burned that it calculates (it even seems a little low sometimes) but for something like bootcamp, I'm lost. I also do kickboxing and I feel like it WAY overestimates the calories burned.

Lobsters25 · June 2012

I take my heart rate a few times during the workout, average it, and plug it into an online 'calories burned' tracker.
It uses my weight, height, gender, workout time, and average workout heartrate to calculate a number that I find to be MUCH more accurate than the p90x estimator or MFP.

aloisk57 · June 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_getting-shape_wtf-mfp?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:238Discussion:5891c7ee-a42b-4f20-850c-aff71e688ffePost:a3ef1781-cc19-4fdf-b330-53013beb7a64">Re: WTF MFP??</a>:
[QUOTE]Lobsters' plan is much more accurate, but if you're looking for a cheat , I've found that MFP seems to estimate my calorie burn about 25% higher than it actually is, at least for running and biking. So I tend to only eat back 75% of the extra calories. I've never done a bootcamp class, but can you estimate based on the type of exercises you do? <strong>So, instead of putting in 30 minutes of kickboxing, you'd put in 10 minutes of lunges, 10 minutes of running, etc - based on whatever the actual exercise you do are. I just pulled out random examples :-)
</strong>Posted by kwitherington[/QUOTE]

I could but we do so many different things, with different weights, it would be like 30 seconds of x, 30 seconds of y...I'm too lazy lol.

entropicbeauty · June 2012

You can manually enter your calories burned as well. To get a more accurate idea, you could start using a HRM and that should give you a more accurate picture. I tend to go by what my FitBit tells me and fix the MFP estimation.

ZeroOrchestra · June 2012

I use a heartrate monitor that reads continuously. Before that, I would plug in bootcamp as 45 minutes of calisthenics, and it was usually close to an average class, but our workouts vary so much that I decided on the HRM. On heavy lifting days I burn so much less than heavy cardio days so the investment made sense to me, plus I go four times a week on average.

aloisk57 · June 2012

Which heart rate monitor do you guys use?

ZeroOrchestra · June 2012

I use the polar FT4 and love it. Super simple to use and stores a ton of data. The chest strap is super comfy, and I wear it all day.

Kkari81 · June 2012

I use a heart rate monitor with a chest strap so it reads throughout my entire workout. This way I know what how many calories I burned for each workout.

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