what is difference between workout & circuit training:?

[horselegs51]

what is the difference between workout & circuit training?

[emili]

hey there @horselegs51 and welcome to the community. Are you asking from a logging in your app perspective or a training perspective? Please clarify so we can help you best..

[horselegs51]

IF you could give me an answer for both would be really appreciated... both
are kinda confusing or maybe it's just me??

[WavyDavey]

Hi @horselegs51, and sorry to barge in @emili,

My thought is, in general terms, a workout is a grouping of exercises done during a single session. Today I did squats, rows and bench press exercises. Together they formed today's workout.

Circuit training, as I understand it, is a type of training where one goes from exercise to exercise, then repeat them with little or no rest in between. So if I did squats, rows, and bench, then repeated that sequence, that would be circuit training. Circuit training is very intense and tiring, and good for building endurance.

In terms of Fitbit, the only difference I can tell is that Circuit Training mode will calculate higher calories burned than a Workout mode. I'm talking about Fitbits like the Charge 2 or Ionic that have manual exercise modes like Workout and Circuit.

When in doubt, I would log as Workout, unless you feel the calories burned being reported is too low. In that case, logging as Circuit Training would be more appropriate.

@horselegs51, which model of Fitbit do you have?

[horselegs51]

HR2

[WavyDavey]

Cool. That has a manual exercise mode for both Workout and Circuit. The article below describes how they work on the Charge 2.

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1980

[Mukluk4]

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@horselegs51 wrote:

what is the difference between workout & circuit training?

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All circuit training activities are a workout, but not all workouts are circuit training activities.

[MagsOnTheBeach]

I did circuit training in college many years ago - There was a clock and we spent 2 minutes on a weight machine then a timer went off and then 30 seconds doing intense cardio and then back to a weight machine.  You did it the circuit 3 times and that was about a 30 minute workout.  

I've seen circuits in gyms since them but the didn't have cardio stations or timers.  The cardio was exercise bikes (the kind where you use your arms too, trampolines, and stair steppers).  But the basic part of a circuit are stations you got from one to the other x amount of times.

[emili]

@WavyDavey thanks for barging in.. I kind of left @horselegs51 hanging..

I think you have the answers you were looking for, do you have additional questions?