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I use both Fitocracy and The Daily Burn to track my exercise. I find that one limitation both of them have is that, when I do something like a bodyweight circuit routine, I'm able to record the exercises and the reps but the ancillary benefit of the cardio on calories burned is uncaptured.

I've been thinking of simply recording an additional "generic cardio" alongside - something like jogging - but I'm unsure about the parameters I should use. My first idea was to record the same amount of time as the exercises took, but I feel like that definitely involves some double-counting, especially in the area of caloric burn, so I feel like maybe... time * .67 might be accurate, but I'm still just guessing. What is a more accurate way to record the caloric burn of circuit routines?

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Personally, I just add a note "Tabata" or "circuit" so that future me knows why I managed so few reps. Then again, I track mostly because of myself, I don't really care about the points (tbh, though, the amount of points from my Tabata burpees is minuscule compared to my rock climbing, so eh). – VPeric Feb 7 at 10:26
Pen and paper don't have this issue. – Dave Liepmann Feb 7 at 12:53
@VPeric I don't care about the difference in reps. I care about being able to track the increased caloric burn benefit that circuit routines require. – Zelbinian Feb 9 at 0:33
@DaveLiepmann What? How does tracking this via pen and paper help me better understand what the caloric difference between the same routine under normal conditions and under circuit conditions? – Zelbinian Feb 9 at 0:33
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I didn't pick up on the fact that caloric burn, rather than accurate recording of the activity, was your goal. – Dave Liepmann Feb 10 at 0:42

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If I understand you corretly, you would like to log various kinds of sports and for each also be able to, for instance, compute the respective number of calories burned. I use Endomondo for this. For each workout you can specify the kind of activity and the total time spent. The site then computes the calories burned. When I'm doing weight training, I additionally log my sets/reps in the notes you can attach to a workout.

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