MFP Fitness Goals Section

hillysuze

I have a question. I'm hoping third times the charm for my weight loss and MFP. When updating my profile, under Fitness Goals, I add in how many times per week I exercise and how long. Does strength training count or is this section for cardio workouts?

lemurcat12

Everything counts, but it's just for you to think about how you are planning to do this. It doesn't affect your calorie goals unless you actually log it. For now MFP will calculate the calorie goals as if you are sedentary, whatever you put in.

Liftng4Lis

Yes, strength training counts towards exercise.

CyberTone

Your Calories Burned / Week goal can include strength training. You will want to estimate how many calories burned per minute (MFP can overestimate those so consider reducing an hour of strength training by a percentage) and log them in the Cardiovascular section.

If desired, log individual sets of strength training exercises in the Strength Training list - it will not account for calories burned.
When completed, go to Cardiovascular and search for "Strength Training (weight lifting, weight training)" entry.
Enter the approximate total minutes, take a look at how many calories it suggested for that many minutes (for me, 60 minutes = 187 Cals per MFP), then adjust the number of minutes to get the number of Calories you want it to record. If I train for 60 minutes, I will enter only 30 minutes of Cardiovascular "Strength Training" so it doesn't overestimate the number of calories burned.
@CyberTone

ana3067

Anny exercise you do. But when I fill in my goals I don't even bother putting that in, mostly because it doesn't change my calorie goal and I don't log exercise here.