Calories burned

sabyahmed48

Is there any way to track how many calories you burn when lifting weights?

malibu927

Search for strength training under cardio

TimothyFish

Do you burn enough lifting weights to make it worthwhile?

Azdak

1. There is no accurate way.

2. There are a number of methods that will give you a meaningless random number. Some of them may be listed in this thread. If you ever want to check whether or not one of these methods "works", refer to statement #1.

Misspinklift

MyFitnessPal doesn't show any calories burn when doing strength training, which makes no sense to me because you are.

There are some accurate way but I find the easiest is to wear a fitness tracker. A lot of a option of strength training, which weight lifting is.

Azdak

Nadine_A_Saad wrote: »

MyFitnessPal doesn't show any calories burn when doing strength training, which makes no sense to me because you are.

There are some accurate way but I find the easiest is to wear a fitness tracker. A lot of a option of strength training, which weight lifting is.

See my previous post. Point #1. Explains everything.

MeanderingMammal

Azdak wrote: »

1. There is no accurate way.

2. There are a number of methods that will give you a meaningless random number. Some of them may be listed in this thread. If you ever want to check whether or not one of these methods "works", refer to statement #1.

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TimothyFish

Azdak wrote: »

1. There is no accurate way.

2. There are a number of methods that will give you a meaningless random number. Some of them may be listed in this thread. If you ever want to check whether or not one of these methods "works", refer to statement #1.

That's not exactly true. If you are willing to wear a mask to measure your oxygen consumption while working out you can get a very accurate measure. But most of us don't have access to that capability.

Azdak

TimothyFish wrote: »

Azdak wrote: »

1. There is no accurate way.

2. There are a number of methods that will give you a meaningless random number. Some of them may be listed in this thread. If you ever want to check whether or not one of these methods "works", refer to statement #1.

That's not exactly true. If you are willing to wear a mask to measure your oxygen consumption while working out you can get a very accurate measure. But most of us don't have access to that capability.

Well, yeah--I mean everyone has a metabolic cart sitting in their basement. Can't imagine how I could have overlooked that. Heck, I was using mine on the cat this morning. Just forgetful in my old age.

But, actually--for reasons I will not bother to list unless someone else is interested--just measuring VO2 is not all that accurate when estimating energy expenditure for strength training. Basically, it's the same reason you can't use an HRM or tracker--there is just too much going on physiologically that cannot be reliably and consistently quantified.

So.....back to #1 which is still the best answer.

L1zardQueen

Azdak wrote: »

TimothyFish wrote: »

Azdak wrote: »

1. There is no accurate way.

2. There are a number of methods that will give you a meaningless random number. Some of them may be listed in this thread. If you ever want to check whether or not one of these methods "works", refer to statement #1.

That's not exactly true. If you are willing to wear a mask to measure your oxygen consumption while working out you can get a very accurate measure. But most of us don't have access to that capability.

Well, yeah--I mean everyone has a metabolic cart sitting in their basement. Can't imagine how I could have overlooked that. Heck, I was using mine on the cat this morning. Just forgetful in my old age.

But, actually--for reasons I will not bother to list unless someone else is interested--just measuring VO2 is not all that accurate when estimating energy expenditure for strength training. Basically, it's the same reason you can't use an HRM or tracker--there is just too much going on physiologically that cannot be reliably and consistently quantified.

So.....back to #1 which is still the best answer.

I have one of those thingees I'm my basement! Lol

CharlieBeansmomTracey

Nadine_A_Saad wrote: »

MyFitnessPal doesn't show any calories burn when doing strength training, which makes no sense to me because you are.

There are some accurate way but I find the easiest is to wear a fitness tracker. A lot of a option of strength training, which weight lifting is.

fitness trackers are not accurate for weight lifting. they can even be off for steady state cardio.

TimothyFish

Azdak wrote: »

TimothyFish wrote: »

Azdak wrote: »

1. There is no accurate way.

2. There are a number of methods that will give you a meaningless random number. Some of them may be listed in this thread. If you ever want to check whether or not one of these methods "works", refer to statement #1.

That's not exactly true. If you are willing to wear a mask to measure your oxygen consumption while working out you can get a very accurate measure. But most of us don't have access to that capability.

Well, yeah--I mean everyone has a metabolic cart sitting in their basement. Can't imagine how I could have overlooked that. Heck, I was using mine on the cat this morning. Just forgetful in my old age.

But, actually--for reasons I will not bother to list unless someone else is interested--just measuring VO2 is not all that accurate when estimating energy expenditure for strength training. Basically, it's the same reason you can't use an HRM or tracker--there is just too much going on physiologically that cannot be reliably and consistently quantified.

So.....back to #1 which is still the best answer.

I saw something the other day that was showing new technology that might be able to take the measurement with just a face mask device and not require a large piece of equipment, though it still might be something most people would borrow instead of own.