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| Very nice. I try to keep my HR between 160 and 170 when I run. Periodically I'll push it into the 180s, but not for extended times. When we do TaeKwonDo it gets up pretty high as well, 170s+.
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CHRISSMITH
3/17/06 9:29 P
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| In between each set of squats and leg press' were 60 seconds of jump rope. We also work on a machine that appears to be a horizontal leg press that is used to work on vertical leap. My HR would stay near 170 for the entire time while working on single leg leaps.
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| 600!!!!! Holy cow. I'll hit 600 calories if I include my cardio and strength. But never just off strength training. Great job!!!
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CHRISSMITH
3/17/06 7:49 P
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I understand their point. It just took me a while to figure it out. Thanks for your response.
My circuit work with a PT tonight burned over 600 calories. The reason for this is that tonight was leg night.
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Chris,
It makes total sense. My wife and I both have heart rate monitors as well, we love them. We have actually just started entering all our exercise manually based off what our HRM says. While the SP charts are relatively accurate, the HRM is a much better gauge for both cardio and strength training.
The main reason strength training isn't available in the fitness section is because the calories burned during it are so different depending on a persons srength. Essentially, it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a generic formula to figure calories burned from strength training. For example, you may bench press 200 lbs like it's nothing, but for me I would struggle to get the weight off the bar. The amount of energy and calories I would burn would be higher than you because the weight is so much heavier to me.
In terms of users on the website not being able to calculate it. SP gives two responses. The first one is for people to just consider the strength training as an "added bonus" in calories burned. The typical person doesn't do enough strength training to burn so many calories that it would effect their intake vs. output. I've worn my HRM during strength training for an hour and only burned about 300 calories. So even if I did that 7 days a week it would only be 2100 calories...barely over 1/2 a lb. The typical person MIGHT do strength training for 2-4 days and usually doesn't burn that many calorie. Anybody that is strength training 5-7 days a week and burning mass calories probably isn't worried as much about weight loss as they are building muscle and tone.
If someone needs to be more accurate SP suggests investing in an HRM. Unfortunately not everyone can afford this option.
Hopefully that makes sense. You seem to understand physical fitness better than a lot of people so I'm sure you more than understand.
matt
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CHRISSMITH
3/17/06 2:30 P
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GolfPro
I eventually got my calories adjusted by playing with the numbers. Assuming that most people get here in poor condition as I did, they may not know to account for the calories during the strength portion of their workout.
The difference is that I wear a heart monitor and know exactly what is happening during a strength conditioning circuit workout. Most may not have this benefit.
Another thing I thought might be an issue is the fact that when manually adding strength workouts, there is no opportunity to add the cardio to that particular workout. Does that make sense?
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Chris,
You can run through the setup process of SP again and manually enter how many calories per week you're burning. This way you can allow for the extra calories you burn during strength training.
Matt
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CHRISSMITH
3/17/06 12:50 P
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I have a question regarding the computation of calories.
The Sparkpeople system doesn't calculate the calories burned during strength training. I've had to compute my strength training calories as cardio due to the fact that I am using the Sparkpeople site to help determine my Caloric Consumption requirements. I know my RMR based on a real RMR Test, so I good with my minimums. My issue is with 3 days strength training and 3 days Cardio, I cannot accurately compute my calorie needs based solely on the cardio data. I was losing weight faster than desired or anticipated.
I am surely not the only one having to do this, am I? I hope I stated the issue clearly.
Thanks for the help
Chris
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