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Apps for weight lifting

tammymoberg
tammymoberg Posts: 31 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone have a favorite app that shows calories burned from weight training? I love this MFP app, but if you log strength it doesn't tell you calories burned. TIA

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  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    edited August 2015
    You can log strength training under the cardio section. But given the wide variables involved, take it with a grain of salt. It's just impossible for a formula to predict. I cut them in half.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    You don't burn that much from lifting.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    edited August 2015
    Since the calorie burns are based on time, it is virtually impossible to come up with a "standard" formula for lifting weights. I could lift 15000lbs and it take an hour or 30000lbs and it still take an hour...but would provide different burns.

    This combined with the fact that you don't burn a whole lot lifting, it's reasonable that MFP doesn't guess.

    You can get a generic number by putting in strength training in the cardio section, but who knows how accurate that is.

    FWIW, I use 125 calories per hour I am in the gym.
  • tammymoberg
    tammymoberg Posts: 31 Member
    Thanks all. I knew it wasn't much, I was just curious. I really wish it burned a ton because cardio is the worst!
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    tammymoberg wrote: »
    Thanks all. I knew it wasn't much, I was just curious. I really wish it burned a ton because cardio is the worst!

    Sigh me too... me too.
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