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Logging weight classes

fnlroberts
fnlroberts Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
If I do a weight lifting class for an hour how do I log this on fitness pal app?

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  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    If you want a calorie burn guesstimate - log it as strength training under the cardiovascular section. Weight lifting has so many factors....super hard to get a good estimate.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Call it 150 and move on. Reevaluate once you have been consistent for a while. There is not an economical way to determine calories burned through strength training other than trial and error. It is generally not many though.

    And there will probably be some people that will come in and say "use a HRM". Please know, they are wrong.
  • fnlroberts
    fnlroberts Posts: 3 Member
    OK. Thank you. Any advice on what to eat after or before a class...I'm a Pescatarian: there's so much out there saying do this eat that
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    fnlroberts wrote: »
    OK. Thank you. Any advice on what to eat after or before a class...I'm a Pescatarian: there's so much out there saying do this eat that

    Breakfast, lunch or dinner. Or a snack. Or nothing at all.
    Nothing special required apart from having an overall "healthy diet" in appropriate quantities.


  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    fnlroberts wrote: »
    OK. Thank you. Any advice on what to eat after or before a class...I'm a Pescatarian: there's so much out there saying do this eat that

    Doesn't matter too much. Just eat like normal. Get enough protein and time your foods to keep you energized. The rest is minutia. You got this!
  • Cylphin60
    Cylphin60 Posts: 863 Member
    edited December 2016
    Hornsby wrote: »
    Call it 150 and move on. Reevaluate once you have been consistent for a while. There is not an economical way to determine calories burned through strength training other than trial and error. It is generally not many though.

    And there will probably be some people that will come in and say "use a HRM". Please know, they are wrong.
    Newb question - what's an HRM? Thanks.
    fnlroberts wrote: »
    OK. Thank you. Any advice on what to eat after or before a class...I'm a Pescatarian: there's so much out there saying do this eat that
    I'm voting along with the others. I tried the advice from various sites for 6 months on when, what, how much to eat drink, before or after and never really saw any difference.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Heart rate monitor.
  • Cylphin60
    Cylphin60 Posts: 863 Member
    I should have known that lol. Thanks
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