MFP calories burned for exercise??

tarothelp
tarothelp Posts: 167 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
It seems odd that walking at a moderate pace for 1 hr buns more calories than strength training for 1 hr? Hmmmm seems highly innacurate. This is why it's safer to not eat back your calories burned!!

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    tarothelp wrote: »
    It seems odd that walking at a moderate pace for 1 hr buns more calories than strength training for 1 hr? Hmmmm seems highly innacurate. This is why it's safer to not eat back your calories burned!!

    It's actually better to more accurately figure out what calorie burns are then to just completely ignore an activity that is otherwise unaccounted for in your activity level. Under fueling your fitness isn't particularly good...fueling your fitness is kind of essential to recovery, performance, and fitness development.

    By the by, lifting doesn't burn that many calories unless you're doing circuit training or something that is more cardiovascular than strength.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    tarothelp wrote: »
    It seems odd that walking at a moderate pace for 1 hr buns more calories than strength training for 1 hr? Hmmmm seems highly innacurate. This is why it's safer to not eat back your calories burned!!

    No.

    I would fully expect walking to burn more than strength training. Why do you think it wouldn't?
  • tarothelp
    tarothelp Posts: 167 Member
    Well I suppose it's constant movement when walking ... lifting feels far more gruelling.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,337 Member
    tarothelp wrote: »
    It seems odd that walking at a moderate pace for 1 hr buns more calories than strength training for 1 hr? Hmmmm seems highly innacurate. This is why it's safer to not eat back your calories burned!!

    Strength training doesn't burn that many calories. Less than brisk walking for the same length of time.
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    In MRP - only cardio activity can be estimated at a caloric burn. Strength training can be tracked by reps, etc., but will not provide a caloric burn. I supose you can get the information from somewhere else and then create your own exercises in the database based on your findings.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Nikion901 wrote: »
    In MRP - only cardio activity can be estimated at a caloric burn. Strength training can be tracked by reps, etc., but will not provide a caloric burn. I supose you can get the information from somewhere else and then create your own exercises in the database based on your findings.

    It will if you search for 'strength training' under cardio
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    tarothelp wrote: »
    It seems odd that walking at a moderate pace for 1 hr buns more calories than strength training for 1 hr? Hmmmm seems highly innacurate. This is why it's safer to not eat back your calories burned!!

    Because you don't believe the database?

    I just burned about 1,500 kCal skiing for hours. Nordic, which means I have to ski up the hill before I can go down - "earn your turns." Heart rate got up to 174 bpm on one the climbs. I wanted to do a few more laps but haven't eaten enough lately, especially carbs, and was starting to feel a little bonky.

    You're saying I should pretend none of this happened when it comes to what I eat the rest of the day. That would be problem on the bike tomorrow.

    Maybe a better approach is to find a better way to estimate or measure your calorie burn. Seeing as how most of us weigh in regularly and track calories eaten and burned through exercise, that's not beyond the realm of possibility.
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