calories burned during strength exercises

morshy76

Been doing some weight exercises with a barbell. Might seem like a strange question, but does this burn calories? I do loads of cardio, just wondered. Cheers

haps3000

I suppose every movement you do burns calories but calculating how many calories are burned is a dark art understood only by the mentally unhinged. In fact, I'm not even sure how they derive the numbers for cardio...

lenkearney

MFP does not seem to award any calories for strength training. when I strength train I do
5 min warmup
6 exercises, 4 sets of 8 reps each - one minute between sets.
20 min HIT routine.
I am seating all through this and a wet rag by the time I finish the HIT- but MFP doesn't count?

gothchiq

If you log strength training under cardio rather than in the other box, it will give you an estimated calorie burn according to the time you spent doing it.

reamsm

I log the actual activities under strength and then add in one item under cardio to account for the calories burned.

sijomial

Yes strength training burns calories - just not a lot.
The MFP estimate (under the CV section remember) is a pretty reasonable estimate.