Calories Burn while doing strenght exercises

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  • erockem
    erockem Posts: 278 Member
    edited April 2015
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    During heavy sets my heart / blood pressure spikes. The set would last 10-25 seconds. My HR stays elevated long after the set, while I was sitting and waiting for the next set. So while I'm just sitting, breathing, and not moving a muscle, my HR looked much like it did when I was doing cardio. I have a HRM for cardio, and have tried it with just these results. Just an example of how inaccurate a HRM for strength training is.

    Strength training is for strength in my book. Cardio is for burning calories.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    edited April 2015
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    LolBroScience wrote: »
    JojoV1977 wrote: »
    I myself am seriously wondering why the My Fitness Pal.app doesn't calculate the calories burned in strength training? It is ridiculous!

    Too many variables.

    This. If I was able to shadow this guy workouts we would not burn the same amounts of calories. So there no point of MFP trying to.

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