Calorie Burn

Oct 6-459. oct8-215, oct 9-285

total push ups/chins 419,418

 

Thought I should get a post in. I have been a little more consistent this week in posting on my other blog. Essentially right now tracking my efforts to get beach ready for Mexico next month. I have mostly been using the push ups and chins ups as an additional strategy to burn calories. I have been trying to do either supersets or small sets with only 30 seconds rest in between. Keeping that heart rate and calorie burn up. My heart rate monitor also measures calorie burn, which is interesting as I seem to be able to get my heart rate up quicker supersetting push ups and variations of chins, than when I run. Also overall I am getting a better calorie burn. Partly because I run at a slow shuffle and I have conditioned myself to do set after set of chin ups or push ups. If you want to see how my prep for Mexico is going check my other blog. http://20poundsdifference.blogspot.ca/

Push ups as Cardio

Dec27-265, Dec 28-200 Dec 29-440

total push ups/chins 378,390

Now that I am doing this Abs by April program, I am getting a few more push ups and chins done. It kind of makes you want to post a little more frequently now that I have a few push ups to report. I bought myself a Polar FT7 today. Just wanted a heart rate monitor that would tell me how many calories I was burning. I wasn't sure if the calorie burn  figures on my myfitness app were all that accurate, so I felt like having a little more accuracy would help with  the program. I did a 30 minute workout of sets of 10 reps of push ups. After each set I would rest no more than 30 seconds between sets. If you use the old Heart Rate formula where you substract your age from 220- I likely want to be in between 121 bpm and 155 bpm which is 70 to 90 percent of maximal heart rate. Giving myself only 30 seconds of rest I was easily within this range the whole half hour. This allowed me to get more than 400 push ups done but also get a really good workout in with a good calorie burn. Most of the time I was around 80 percent of mhr.  I might try the same kind of workout with chin ups tomorrow. Maybe sets of 3 with 30 seconds of rest in between sets.