This is my first time ever asking for help from a community board so forgive me if this is a little long. I just want to make sure you all have enough facts available to help me. I joined Title Boxing Club in September and go 5 days a week. I take a boxing class 3 days a week and do personal training 2 days a week. II lost 4% of my body fat, 7 pounds, and definitely some inches.
At this point I want to know how to tweak my workouts and calorie intake to lose the reaining 5-7 pounds. I saw the fitbit and felt this would help track the actual calories I'm burning, etc and after numerous hints my son bought me the Flex for my birthday 🙂 I absolutely love using it!
It's now day 5 and I don't know if my boxing class is being logged properly. The class is intense and I give it everything I've got... it's 60 minutes long. First 15 minutes are an intense "hiit" "warm-up". Then we have 8, three minute rounds of boxing (heavy bag). In between each round we do approximately 30 seconds of cardio (burpees, running, jumping jacks, squat jums, etc). The last 15 minutes are an intense core workout. The flex can track some of the class but I don't think it's capturing everything. The test was that on Wed I took a class and a personal training session and it recorded 55 active minutes and when it synced with MyFitnessPal it gave me a 495 calorie adjustment. Yesterday (Friday) was my day off from the gym and it recorded 62 very active minutes and gave me a 449 calorie adjustment through MyFitnesssPal. I live in New York and walk a lot and I walked a little more than usual yesterday but the numbers seem too close to the figures recorded for my workouts.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can truly see how many calories I'm burning during my classes? This was the main reason behind wanting the fitbit.
Thaks again for taking the time to help me 🙂
Sharon
