Situps are a staple of many exercise routines. Several types of situps target your abdominal muscles. Performing situps can burn between 470 and 750 calories an hour, depending on your weight and the intensity of the workout. Knowing how many calories you burn with each activity is important if you are recording your daily intake and expenditure of calories. Burning more than 3500 calories should result in a 1 lb. fat loss. Using a formula, you can calculate a more accurate estimate of the calories you burn doing situps.
Step 1
Measure your heart rate after you finish exercising but before you cool down. Place your pointer and middle fingers on one of your two carotid arteries, which run up the front of your neck on each side. Count how many pulses you feel in 60 seconds.
Step 2
Measure your weight in kilograms using a scale.
Step 3
Plug the numbers you obtain into the following heart rate calorie equation:
For men: ((-55.0969 + (0.6309 x heart rate) + (0.1988 x weight in kilograms) + (0.2017 x age))/4.184) x 60 x duration of exercise in minutes.
For women: ((-20.4022 + (0.4472 x heart rate) + (0.1263 x weight in kilograms) + (0.074 x age))/4.184) x 60 x duration of exercise in minutes.
Things You'll Need
- Scale
- Calculator
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