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NROLFW ladies: are we Moderately active according to CC?


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I still cant decide whether or not to log my exercise, or just set it at light or moderate and not log.

What does everyone do?

Since Jan I have left it at lightly active and not logged anything. I have been lifting 2-3 days a week since then with additional cardio and now play baseball one day a week.

I think I am probably closer to Moderately active now...

What do you think?

Also I've asked before but those of you with HRM's, approx how many cals does a lifting session burn? I am most interested in Stage 3 , 4, 5.

I entered in today (just to see) 40 mins of virgorous lifting for my stage 4 workout and got around 240 cals burned. Is this accurate?

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I think moderately active would probably about right for this - esp. since you're doing the cardio and playing ball.  I always just set to sedentary and added in, but I've also experimented with that, and the calories came up to what moderately active would have been.

Never broke down and bought an HRM, so can't be specific about the burn for a good workout.

I do sedentary and log all my exercise- but only "true exercise" I don't log every walk to the bathroom and such.  I use a heart rate monitor for my calorie burn and some workout days I'll burn 200 cals some 400 for similar workouts

With "moderately active' as my burn rate it allows me 300 more cals a day but there are some days I don't work out so thats why I use the sedentary rate.

I have mine set to light activity to account for using the stairs at work and getting lots of walking in, coaching bowling, bowling (even though I'm not doing that regularly now), and playing on the Wii. 

Then I log my lifting.  I do it that way because even though I'm aiming for twice a week, sometimes I fail, and sometimes I overachieve and get 3 sessions.

I'm not 100% sure I trust my heart monitor, I think it overestimates even though I have put in my all my info.  That said, I routinely get 500 calories or more for the longer workouts.  Last night I spent an hour doing NROL Fat Loss I workout B, and my heart rate monitor said 670 calories burnt.  

I usually log mine as "calesthenics - vigorous"  and that is always less than my heart rate monitor says. 

 

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