Pretty much what I do. If the bagel ruins ate on sale, I will use those. |
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Wow. What do you do earn that many exercise points? I work out for 45 minutes and only earn 3 as far as I can figure it. |
New poster here. My spin class alone is 9 points. Tomorrow I will run for an hour (probably 7 miles or so) and I will earn 10 points for that. According to my HR monitor watch my run tomorrow will kill 720cal and I am going to be wanting to knaw my arm off all day tomorrow and will blow through my 26 points in 1.5 meals. If you are only earning 3 Points in 45 minuets, you really need to ramp up your effort. |
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How well does your HR Monitor align with WW activity points? The scale (low, moderate, high) seems very coarse, and I bet i really mis-estimate my APs using it! Tempted to get a HRM for better tracking of calories burned... |
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Do you know the rough translation of WWpts to calories? For example: -50 min spin class gives me 9 points. In that class I burn around 575 cal give or take 25. I can tell you that I do love my HRM, especially for the cal burned. I'm sure it is not 100% accurate, but it gives me a good idea of how hard I have worked. I have done spin and only burned 450pts and I know after that class that I was really lazy and did not work my hardest. If I burn over 600, I'm really proud. It means that I kept my HR pretty high. If I do an exercise that burns, say, 800cal and above, my hunger will be off the charts for 24hrs and it makes it very hard to keep control. |
WW is roughly 40 calories per point. I think the activity points are supposed to represent about 1/2 the colories you burn exercising (or else there would obviously be no benefit) so if you burned 800 calories, divide by 40/ and then cut the number in 1/2 (or just divide by 80) and that would be about 10 points. I have never come anywhere close to that
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Second this. In the freezer section. |
Well that is great to know. I posted about about spin. The WW calculation is very flawed. My DH is 220#s and we run together, he almost doubles my calorie burn because of his mass. I suppose the way to go would be to do the calc yourself with your HRM. Today I did spin and burned 600cal, so as per your formula I should get 7.5pts, according to my WW online tool, I actually get 9 points. However, I'll still take the 9 points. I find that WW is a tiny bit too restrictive for me and leaves me pretty hungy. However I'm already normal weight, just tring to lose the last 8#s. |