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Strength Training

niclexiemom
niclexiemom Posts: 6 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Why won't my strength training calculate on my page? I can log what I do, but it does not count against my exercise. Am I adding it in wrong?
Thanks

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  • Skee_2802
    Skee_2802 Posts: 297 Member
    I've noticed the same thing as I do strength training as well. Yet when I do cardio it seems to count towards the exercise... Would like to know the same too ???
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Search for strength training under cardio to get a burn estimate
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    Search for strength training under cardio to get a burn estimate

    That's what I do. Not a ton of calories burned in the immediate logged sense, but a strength training is excellent in the long run.
  • Lizarking
    Lizarking Posts: 507 Member
    It's in the FAQ. Nobody reads FAQs. They should just get rid of the feature, or give people 3 calories for each lift or something.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    Lizarking wrote: »
    It's in the FAQ. Nobody reads FAQs. They should just get rid of the feature, or give people 3 calories for each lift or something.

    LOL. That's almost how I calculate it for myself. Compound lifts = 1 Cal/rep. Isolation lifts = 1/2 Cal/rep.

    It's all a guesstimate based on averages of particular parameters, anyway. When I track (or, was tracking) that worked pretty well for me.
  • tillerstouch
    tillerstouch Posts: 608 Member
    Lizarking wrote: »
    It's in the FAQ. Nobody reads FAQs. They should just get rid of the feature, or give people 3 calories for each lift or something.

    Not to mention this gets asked every other day... use the search people and read the answer from the 5 million other threads asking this...
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