Add calories burned during weight sessions
tami_andrews
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so lifting is a regular part of my workout regiment. When I logged the strength training in, it does not show calories burned. I use an FT for polar watch. Is there anyway to manually punch in your calories?
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You don't earn that much and your HRM won't accurately give you a figure as that's for steady state cardio so best to just log with a nominal 1 calorie0
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Um I actually think you can burn a lot of calories lifting, rabbitjb . OP - there is probably a more accurate way to measure your burn, but one option is to log your lifting under the cardiovascular section as "calisthenics" - that will estimate calories just like it will for walking or biking or whatever. Think of the strength section as just a way to keep track of weight lifted and reps/sets done as that section will not add any calorie burn.0
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Oh - and you can manually enter calories my creating a new exercise under "my exercises" in cardio.0
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Interesting, I was logging the weightlifting but it wasn't showing up as any burn, which made no sense but at least it gave a log to chart somewhat. So calisthenics is the way to log this...~!~0
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You can use the calisthenics entry under cardio or you can use "Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)" also under cardio. I'm not sure which one would be more accurate as far as MFP calorie burn estimates but it just makes more sense to me to use weight lifting for lifting weights...0
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From the MFP Help pages...
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/11170-why-don-t-you-calculate-calories-burned-for-strength-training-
Also, you can get an estimate for many types of activities burned for your body weight, including weight lifting (strength training), from the CalorieLab site calorielab.com/burned/0 -
If I'm understanding the question correctly... add it as a cardio exercise (just look up strength training, or something similar), then you'll get calories burned. You can manually change that number if you want.0
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strength training isnt logged as a calorie burning workout when you are putting in weights - that's about strength. If you want to add in the calorie burn of it as well, you need to put it in as a cardio exercise - most people use strength training / weight lifting or circuit training.
Or you can use your heart monitor, find out how much you really burned and make your own custom exercise in the MFP database. I do that all the time. Most of my workouts are just SuperHero names :P0 -
The strength training portion of the exercise log is there solely for you to keep track of your lifting progress. To see calories burned (and it's a very very very rough estimate that is usually way way off), log "Strength training" under cardiovascular.0
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You guys ROCK!! I did add this under cardio. I use a heart rate monitor so my calories are accurate and I am entering them based on my stats there and not using MFP's estimate. Would love to have any and all on the journey! I can't figure the app very well so feel free to add me and we can keep up!! Thanks!0
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strangles the word 'journey' grrrrrrrrrrrrrr1
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A couple of things here.... if you're using a HRM and you've entered your correct weight, you are definitely getting accurate readings of calories burned. As others said, you can manually enter your calories burned under "weightlifting". I stay on the conservative side of all this stuff and err on the side of caution. Can't tell you how many times I read posts from people saying they've been watching every morsel, recording accurately, and gained five pounds. In other words, if your HRM is telling you that you burned 431 kcals in one hour of lifting (or whatever), round down to 400. You'll be pleasantly surprised when at the end of six months, you lost five pounds of fat you didn't expect to lose.0
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Um I actually think you can burn a lot of calories lifting, rabbitjb . OP - there is probably a more accurate way to measure your burn, but one option is to log your lifting under the cardiovascular section as "calisthenics" - that will estimate calories just like it will for walking or biking or whatever. Think of the strength section as just a way to keep track of weight lifted and reps/sets done as that section will not add any calorie burn.
No you really don't burn that much.
HRMs are for steady state cardio and won't be accurate for lifting and going by the MFP database is pretty off-base from my experience0 -
Um I actually think you can burn a lot of calories lifting, rabbitjb . OP - there is probably a more accurate way to measure your burn, but one option is to log your lifting under the cardiovascular section as "calisthenics" - that will estimate calories just like it will for walking or biking or whatever. Think of the strength section as just a way to keep track of weight lifted and reps/sets done as that section will not add any calorie burn.
No you really don't burn that much.
HRMs are for steady state cardio and won't be accurate for lifting and going by the MFP database is pretty off-base from my experience
This. I've heard the HRMs are inaccurate for weight training as well. Though I don't use one so I'm basing this solely on what I've read.0 -
while it doesn't burn as much as cardio, putting aside the other benefits, its a good burn. I get at least 200 cals per every 30 minute session. I started my fitness program with gym that focused on weights over cardio and it usually had me at around 250 per every 30 minutes depending on how hard the day's workout was.0
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HRMs will not give you accurate calories burned for weight lifting. They are meant for steady state cardio. Here's an explanation: http://livehealthy.chron.com/can-heart-rate-monitors-measure-calories-weight-lifting-4910.html
I'd suggest logging your strength training and using MFP's number. I've found it to be reasonably accurate, whereas my HRM was definitely an overestimation.0 -
Can people please stop talking about which burns more, especially with exactly ZERO context???
Gahd.
It is very possible to burn more calories lifting than with cardio, and it's just as possible to burn more calories with cardio than with lifting.
Nevermind the complexity of "knowing" how many calories you burn doing either.0 -
I never logged my weight training and for the first 4-5 months I lost what MFP said I would. I guess means that I burned practically nothing while weight training, or not eating back those calories allowed for some errors in eating, which kept me on track.0
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Um I actually think you can burn a lot of calories lifting, rabbitjb . OP - there is probably a more accurate way to measure your burn, but one option is to log your lifting under the cardiovascular section as "calisthenics" - that will estimate calories just like it will for walking or biking or whatever. Think of the strength section as just a way to keep track of weight lifted and reps/sets done as that section will not add any calorie burn.
No you really don't burn that much.
HRMs are for steady state cardio and won't be accurate for lifting and going by the MFP database is pretty off-base from my experience
Compared to what? You really don't burn that much doing 30 minutes of steady state power walking either.
To the OP, just find the low end of what you would burn for a specific amount of time for someone your size and use that. It takes a lot of energy to lift heavy things. Also Compound movements burn more than isolation exercises.
There is also some rough calculations you can use. I always take whatever number I get and divide it in half
(METs x 3.5 x weight in kilograms ÷ 200) x duration in minutes = calories burned.
For example when I squat I am lifting at least twice my body weight. I do 2 warm up sets and then 5 sets of 5. I don't even count the warm ups but my calories burned is about 210.
After squats its two to three more compound exercises. That would put my estimated calories in the gym for an hour around 300-600. I input 200 and leave it at that. I'd rather underestimate and not screw with weight loss goals too much. If its actually more than that then good for me, I seriously doubt its less than that.
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Eh, for every half hour of lifting, I log 25 calories burned. There's no way I can get exact enough to figure out the exact number of minutes I was lifting (vs resting between lifts), how much of an afterburn I'm getting, bleh bleh. Log your weight training however you'd like. If you eat back your calories and notice you're not losing as fast as you should, recalculate.0
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britishbroccoli wrote: »Eh, for every half hour of lifting, I log 25 calories burned. There's no way I can get exact enough to figure out the exact number of minutes I was lifting (vs resting between lifts), how much of an afterburn I'm getting, bleh bleh. Log your weight training however you'd like. If you eat back your calories and notice you're not losing as fast as you should, recalculate.
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tami_andrews wrote: »so lifting is a regular part of my workout regiment. When I logged the strength training in, it does not show calories burned. I use an FT for polar watch. Is there anyway to manually punch in your calories?
HRM is as accurate as your going to get! ... everyone always says they are inaccurate... but there is nothing else out there unless you get hooked up to a breathing apparatus and have a million sensors... anyone have one? No didn't think so ...so stop saying they are inaccurate when they are the only thing out there.
Basically use a HRM if you want something that is as close as you will ever get. You can also use the website and just track "weight lifting" and it guestimates a calorie burn. Just choose and stick with 1 method.
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tami_andrews wrote: »
This is just because the word Journey is over used here. Why anyone would bother getting actually upset about it is beyond me though.0
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