Strength Training entries

ruthiebaby88

Hello all! I'm excited to start another round of MyFitnessPal after going off the rails for the past 6 months.

I have fitness dice from Strength Stack, so I rolled myself a workout this morning with several body weight exercises.

Im surprised that MyFitnessPal only has specific exercises listed under the Strength training section. I don't have the patience to enter those individually so I just entered the workout total minutes under cardio - circuit training.

I am curious to know what you all are doing. Do you find any benefit to entering the individual strengthening exercises one by one? What will the difference be in how MyFitnessPal calculates my calories? I allow myself extra calories for those burned in workouts.

ldwatene

I don't think there would be any as none of the strength exercise section offsets calories that I've seen anyway.

I think you have selected the most suitable option.

I lift weights. No cardio. I use the cardio - strength training option to offset calories. Based on external research it's pretty close to what it should be.

TavistockToad

I would log it as strength training not circuit training in the cardio section.

estherdragonbat

https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/11170-why-don-t-you-calculate-calories-burned-for-strength-training-

I'm not that consistent with my strength training logging. I've done it before, but I've noticed a lot of people don't. And when I had a tiny weight-gain a couple of weeks ago, which I will agree could have been ANYTHING (weight loss is not linear, TOM, yadda yadda yadda), I stopped logging straight reps.

What I do log are "gentle stretches" for warmups and cool-downs, even though my warmups are a bit less gentle. And one of my strength-training workouts combines cardio and weight intervals. I log it as 'Callisthenics, home, light/moderate effort'. But if I'm doing 30-60 minutes of dumbbells (and other strength-specific, non-cardio) exercises, I don't track those calories anymore.

I generally eat back about 50% of my exercise calories +/-100 or so.

DancingMoosie

Calisthenics might be an option for logging it under cardio.