My Fitness Pal question

elsie3

Cathlete
For those of you who use this site, how do you enter your exercise? I'm not seeing a way to just manually enter the calories burned for the day. Is their some way to do this?

There is no way I'm going to tediously enter each exercise in a Cathe workout into their site. I've got a Polar HR monitor, so I've got a pretty good idea of calories burned. And my readings are usually close to the Workout Manager.
 
I just do a generic search under the "Cardiovascular" tab, and click the add your own exercise - you can put whatever description you want, time, and calories burned.
 
Yep, what Sadie said. I find that MFP can be a little aggravating to use so I try to keep myself from overthinking.

I've collected a list under the Cardio heading...aerobics (low and high impact), step, strength training, circuit training....etc. And then whatever workout I do I pick the one that fits closest and put my info from my HRM in....minutes and calories...and then step away!

The Strength Training section is useless IMO...for my purposes anyway...so I don't use it.

I DO track my workouts in the Workout Manager and that satisfies my need to see the workouts I actually did. ....:eek:...and I put stickers on my FlyLady calendar......

Like I said I TRY to keep myself from overthinking, LOL!
 
Thanks for your replies. Since I keep a written log and track in the Workout Manager, I don't care what it says, as long as I can get expended calories in.
 
Each time you enter an exercise with time and calories burned, it is saved in your own database ( more like a list) and then you can just check off whenever you do it again, and change the time and calories burned. I like the "notes section too, where you can add anything specific you want to remember about that session.

MFP is way better than FitDay which is what I use to use before MFP.
 
I use a few of their generic titles sometimes, but most of the time I add my own DVDs since I do them over and over again and so once I have input the time and the calories expended, based on my HRM, I just pull them up from there. I'm kind of anal and I like to go back and see exactly what I did in the past, so for me its worth it to add my actual exercises to the database. That may not be true for everyone, though. I still use my HRM, and if my count is different, I'll adjust the minutes on that specific workout to get to the right number. You can add your own exercises by going to the exercise tab, selecting my exercises, and hitting the green button to create exercises. This is most useful if you have a HRM and know exactly how many calories you are burning though, IMHO.

I don't use the weight training option, just the cardio one.
Eva
 

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