Boot Camp Fitness

[kikif617]

Hi I'm curious on what workout things I should and shouldn't log. I don't log the treadmill because that's pretty much like walking (which fitbit will pick up), but yesterday I used the arc machine and the treadmill. Should I have manually logged the arc machine?. I know for a fact my active minutes yesterday was at least 105 minutes, but my dashboard only said 87 minutes, so it obviously didn't pick up something that I did. 

Also I do boot camp fitness, is that something I should log manually (I have been logging my classes manually, but it constantly gives me the same number for calories burned for each time I log it, and I'm sure there are times I'm burning more or less calories than that standard number it gives me. Thank you for your input.

[Heybales]

Non-step based, meaning no impact, needs to be manually logged.

The calculations of calorie burn related to your weight is based on calculated pace.

And that doesn't exist even if it read every step on the ARC machine, because wrong formula. Same as elliptical, same as spin bike, same as some classes like boot camp likely.

Way more calorie burn than you would get credit for.

And since you want to fuel such good workouts and eat correctly for level of activity - best to let Fitbit know.

And correct on manually logging, as long as weight is the same, almost every single activity is weight based to major degree, so calories stays the same.

Lose weight, it's less.

And as you observed, there is no more descriptive that you worked out harder or easier. Count it as a balance.

Or be very strict on time. Some people log a 60 min spin class. But there was slower warmup and cooldown and stretching for 15 min. So actually only 45 should be logged.

Or your boot camp some days may have more rest waiting time, or listening to instruction, or warmup/cooldown time.

Best you can get, because even a HRM for that type of activity with constantly changing HR is going to be inflated.