Calories Property

The Calories Property allows coaches and athletes to prescribe, record, and analyze the number of calories expended during an exercise, workout, conditioning session, or training activity.

This property is most commonly used with cardiovascular equipment and wearable technologies that estimate energy expenditure. It can also be used as a performance target during conditioning sessions where athletes are challenged to achieve a specific calorie goal.

What Does the Calories Property Record?

The Calories property stores the estimated amount of energy expended during an activity.

Calories are recorded in:

Kilocalories (kcal)

Examples include:

• Bike calories
• Rowing calories
• Ski erg calories
• Air bike calories
• Treadmill calories
• Wearable-derived calorie expenditure
• Metabolic conditioning workout totals

Units of Measurement

Calories are displayed as:

Kilocalories (kcal)

Example

How Athletes Enter Calories

Athletes can manually record the calorie value displayed by their training equipment or wearable device.

Example

These values are then stored within CoachMePlus for reporting and analysis.

How Coaches Prescribe Calories

Calories can be used as a workout target.

Example

Air Bike

• Goal: 50 Calories

The athlete continues working until 50 calories are accumulated.

Conditioning Example

Row Erg

• Goal: 250 Calories

The athlete completes the exercise once the prescribed calorie target is reached.

Circuit Example

Metabolic Conditioning

• Complete 100 Total Calories

Calories may be accumulated across multiple pieces of equipment.

Why Use Calories?

Calories provide a simple way to prescribe and monitor workload without requiring specific distances, durations, or speeds.

This is especially useful when:

• Athletes have varying fitness levels
• Multiple equipment types are used
• Conditioning sessions need a standardized workload target
• Energy expenditure is a primary concern

How Calories are Used in Reporting

The Calories property can be analyzed throughout CoachMePlus dashboards and reports.

Common reporting options include:

Total Calories

Sum of calories accumulated during a selected period.

Example:

Total Calories:

950 kcal

Average Calories

Average calorie expenditure per session.

Maximum Calories

Highest calorie value recorded during a workout or time period.

Calorie Trends

Track conditioning volume over time.

Compliance Monitoring

Determine whether athletes achieved prescribed calorie targets.

Common Use Cases

Air Bike Training

Track calories accumulated during:

• Sprint intervals
• Conditioning sessions
• Recovery rides

Rowing Workouts

Monitor calorie expenditure during ergometer sessions.

Ski Erg Training

Track metabolic workload using calories as the primary metric.

Circuit Training

Measure overall conditioning output during mixed-modality workouts.

Tactical Performance

Track energy expenditure during conditioning and work-capacity training.

General Fitness

Use calorie targets as a simple conditioning objective for large groups.

Calories and Other Exercise Properties

Calories are often paired with additional exercise properties to provide greater context.

Important Considerations

Calorie values are typically estimates generated by exercise equipment, wearables, or proprietary algorithms.

Because different devices use different calculation methods, calorie values may vary between systems.

For this reason, calorie data is often most useful when:

• Comparing an athlete to themselves over time
• Monitoring trends within the same device ecosystem
• Tracking relative changes in conditioning workload

Example

A coach prescribes:

Air Bike

• Goal: 75 Calories

The athlete completes:

• Calories: 78 kcal
• Duration: 6 minutes, 45 seconds

CoachMePlus stores the completed calorie value, allowing coaches to monitor conditioning output, analyze trends, track compliance, and evaluate workload progression over time.

Calories can also be aggregated across workouts, weeks, months, seasons, or training cycles to provide insight into conditioning volume and energy expenditure.