Curves workout

Hello calorie counters!  I hope everyone is doing well and is as happy as I am about their progress.  I do have a question though that I need someone to answer for me.   I workout at Curves every evening and I don't know how to log it.  When I put curves workout in my activity log it comes up with weightlifting- light or moderate workout.  Now on the wall at curves it says that you burn about 600 calories per workout which is about 35 minutes to complete the circuit.  I just keep going around until I reach 45 minutes and I do this daily.  I read somewhere that severly overweight people should exercise daily as it keeps the metabolism up.  (someone please correct me if that is wrong).  But when I log it that way it only shows that I'm burning about 200-250 calories.  My workouts are much more than light or moderate but I'm not seeing another way to log it.  Any suggestions?  Thanks for your help and make it a great day! 

 

 

hey there mock.  log it as circuit training (620 calories/hour).  keep it up!

Yeah circuit training sounds pretty reasonable. 

600 calories for the 35 minutes sounds extremely high!  That's over 1000 per hour - I don't think that's accurate.

I don't know, I'm just going by what it says at the gym.  They say their workout is 3 times around the circuit which ends up being about 35 minutes to complete.  I do very much appreciate your replies!  Thanks so much.

If two people are different heights/weights/body fat %s they will burn different amounts of calories doing the exact same workout.  The 600 it says at the gym is likely an estimate based on a person who is X feet tall, weighs Y lbs and has Z% body fat, the problem is that they don't tell you X, Y, or Z which makes the 600 calories number pretty useless.

i work out every morning to denise austin for 30min, which involves low-impact aerobics, weights, stretching, and i get on treadmill during commercials.  i put down that i burn 300cal. in 30min.  i have a treadmill that tracks calories burned and i burn almost 100cal in 15min, but that's at an incline and at 3.7mph.  it really doesn't matter what you put down on your log, just keep up the good work and don't eat your calories back.  i limit myself to a certain amount of calories a day, and don't go over, even tho i may burn 500cal daily. 

HI

I do curves and only log 102 calories per 30 min.   

To burn 600 calories at curves you might need to weight 600 pounds.  It is considered a light activity, there is just not enough resistance to challenge yourself.

Hi Mock, I work out at curves and we have the SMART equipment, which works off inserting a tag into each machine and then you get your results at the end of your workout. Everday i work out, i burn between 500-570 calories so yes it is 100% correct that you can burn up to 600 calories in 30 minutes! It obviously depends on your weight etc but it is correct.