STRENGTH TRAINING AND CALORIE BURN

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  • ngolden3320
    ngolden3320 Posts: 360 Member
    Capt_Apollo wrote: »
    stop working on your abs every day or it will produce the exact opposite results you want.

    Thanks. I don't want that to happen. how often should I work on abs?
  • ngolden3320
    ngolden3320 Posts: 360 Member
    Thanks to everyone for your responses. I will just not worry about the calories burned and just take them as a bonus.
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,457 Member
    ngolden3320 wrote: »
    Thanks to everyone for your responses. I will just not worry about the calories burned and just take them as a bonus.

    If you record your weights/reps/sets you might be able to come up with a better MET value or something that would get you close in calorie burn. But except for the people killing it lifting, and the larger people (muscle) it's really not all that much.

    I think most people that are well rounded in fitness could easily burn 2-3 times the calories on cardio with the same amount of time. At the extreme ends of a light runner lifting vs heavy lifter doing cardio, I still think the calorie burn would skew much stronger towards the cardio.
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