How to determine how many calories you burn from weight training?
Sparkle097
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How??? Without a watch???
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Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.16 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
@quiksylver296 When counting, does that hour include all the various breaks between sets and exercises? should she count the whole time in the weight room or approximate the number of minutes actually lifting?
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
@quiksylver296 When counting, does that hour include all the various breaks between sets and exercises? should she count the whole time in the weight room or approximate the number of minutes actually lifting?
In all transparency, I eat TDEE now and don't count exercise calories anymore. I am very consistent in my exercise, so that works better for me.
Having said that, if I were going to track exercise calories I would approximate the time I was actually lifting.6 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Thank u all make sense to me now. But do I half the number when I’m eating them back????1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
@quiksylver296 When counting, does that hour include all the various breaks between sets and exercises? should she count the whole time in the weight room or approximate the number of minutes actually lifting?
In all transparency, I eat TDEE now and don't count exercise calories anymore. I am very consistent in my exercise, so that works better for me.
Having said that, if I were going to track exercise calories I would approximate the time I was actually lifting.
When mfp give u that number for exercise cals do they take into account your age, height, gender and stuff????1 -
sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
@quiksylver296 When counting, does that hour include all the various breaks between sets and exercises? should she count the whole time in the weight room or approximate the number of minutes actually lifting?
In all transparency, I eat TDEE now and don't count exercise calories anymore. I am very consistent in my exercise, so that works better for me.
Having said that, if I were going to track exercise calories I would approximate the time I was actually lifting.
When mfp give u that number for exercise cals do they take into account your age, height, gender and stuff????
You gave them all that info, right? When you did the set-up and got your calorie goal?3 -
sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Thank u all make sense to me now. But do I half the number when I’m eating them back????
Again, as I told you yesterday:
Eat back half. If you are losing more slowly than expected, eat less than half. If you are losing more quickly than predicted, eat back more than half. You have to experiment with it to find out.7 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Thank u all make sense to me now. But do I half the number when I’m eating them back????
Again, as I told you yesterday:
Eat back half. If you are losing more slowly than expected, eat less than half. If you are losing more quickly than predicted, eat back more than half. You have to experiment with it to find out.
Yeahhh I entered this on the cardio section
30 min HIIT and it said I burned 50 cals. So that’s right???1 -
sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Thank u all make sense to me now. But do I half the number when I’m eating them back????
Again, as I told you yesterday:
Eat back half. If you are losing more slowly than expected, eat less than half. If you are losing more quickly than predicted, eat back more than half. You have to experiment with it to find out.
Yeahhh I entered this on the cardio section
30 min HIIT and it said I burned 50 cals. So that’s right???
So if I burn 50, I eat like 25 cals????1 -
sathmif465 wrote: »sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Thank u all make sense to me now. But do I half the number when I’m eating them back????
Again, as I told you yesterday:
Eat back half. If you are losing more slowly than expected, eat less than half. If you are losing more quickly than predicted, eat back more than half. You have to experiment with it to find out.
Yeahhh I entered this on the cardio section
30 min HIIT and it said I burned 50 cals. So that’s right???
So if I burn 50, I eat like 25 cals????
Just pick a number or percentage and stick with it CONSISTENTLY for a reasonable amount of time (4-6 weeks) and let your results be your guide. You are agonizing far too much over this.8 -
HIIT (if it is really HIIT) should be more than that I would think. Isn't HIIT more cardio than lifting?
I did 37 mins of lifting this morning. Total time including rest. My watch gave me 233 calories. In my TDEE calculations, I allow 100.
I did 15 mins on the treadmill (2.5K). My watch gave me 207 calories. Formulas would give me ~205 and I use 200 in my TDEE calc.
The watches are much better for steady state cardio and are next to useless for lifting.10 -
sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Thank u all make sense to me now. But do I half the number when I’m eating them back????
Again, as I told you yesterday:
Eat back half. If you are losing more slowly than expected, eat less than half. If you are losing more quickly than predicted, eat back more than half. You have to experiment with it to find out.
Yeahhh I entered this on the cardio section
30 min HIIT and it said I burned 50 cals. So that’s right???
What exactly is the exercise you did because you are giving contradictory descriptions which makes it hard to know what category you should be logging your exercise as? Describe your workout.....
HIIT is maximal effort, short burst of maximal effort cardio, interspersed with recovery periods, highly unlikely you could do 30 minutes of it as it is so taxing. (Unfortunately it's currently a horribly over-used advertising term and just causes confusion.)
A "watch" cannot actually count calories, assuming you mean a heart rate monitor they just count heartbeats. They can use that information for calorie estimates but the accuracy can be awful - especially for the wrong kind of exercise. Interval cardio and strength training are two examples where they can be wildly inaccurate.
If you are doing strength training then it assumes you are resting between sets and you log the entire time of your session.5 -
When I was logging I just used the weight lifting entry under cardio and used that number.2
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I would just enter the amount of time you spend lifting weights in total and use whatever the number comes out to be. When I used to log exercise to lose weight, I ate back all of my exercise calories. I lost weight. Or you can eat half and see how that works out for you. You are agonizing over being perfectly accurate. There's no way to be precise when it comes to counting calories. The calories in and out will always be an estimation. Even nutrition labels round to the nearest multiple of 5. Just pick a method, and do that consistently.3
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Five years I've been logging weight lifting. I started with the lifting entry in MFP, ate back 75% and after about five to six weeks adjusted based on results. I ended up eating all the calories given as it ended up being pretty precise for me. And I've been eating all of them ever since with no issues losing or maintaining.
Following progressive lifting programs, I burn about 150 calories per hour at age 44, 5'3" and 125 lbs.
Real world data trumps all estimates.4 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Interesting tidbit: My Fitbit gives me pretty much the same burn that MFP does, once I crunch the numbers for net burn from what I see on my dashboard. They've updated their algorithm and don't really rely on heart rate for anything if you enter in that you're lifting on your watch.2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
@quiksylver296 When counting, does that hour include all the various breaks between sets and exercises? should she count the whole time in the weight room or approximate the number of minutes actually lifting?
Yes. It includes breaks between sets up to two minutes, IIRC. I've seen heybales post on this.2 -
Thanks so much!0
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sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »sathmif465 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Weight training doesn't burn a lot of calories. Like I mentioned yesterday, just enter it into the Cardio side of the exercise entries in this site and use that number. I get like 180 calories for an hour.
You don't have to be perfect, just consistent.
You do realize that a watch is just as much of a guess, calorie-wise, as the entry in this site, right? Watches aren't magic calorie calculators.
Thank u all make sense to me now. But do I half the number when I’m eating them back????
Again, as I told you yesterday:
Eat back half. If you are losing more slowly than expected, eat less than half. If you are losing more quickly than predicted, eat back more than half. You have to experiment with it to find out.
Yeahhh I entered this on the cardio section
30 min HIIT and it said I burned 50 cals. So that’s right???
Are you doing that high(ish)-speed, usually higher rep, lower weight cardio/weight circuit training stuff with machines or freeweights that gets called HIIT these days for marketing purposes? If so, log it as "circuit training".
If you're just lifting weights or using machines in a normal manner (steady reps, sets, rest periods), log it as "strength training".
If your so-called HIIT is "functional fitness" stuff like tire flips, battle ropes, various calisthenics type moves, or exercises like burpees, mountain climbers, and that sort of thing in circuits, log it as "calisthenics".
Then, as others said, eat back a rational portion of the calories - 50% is usually good to start - monitor for 4-6 weeks, and adjust as needed.
Anything called "HIIT" that's offered commercially is frequently oversold as to calorie burn by whoever does the marketing, including any bad math they may do concerning "afterburn" (EPOC).
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Google "exercises and calories burned" and you will get a solid list of sites that was give you a range per exercise or sport or whatever you are doing. I looked at 5 or so of these sites then took an average of all 5. Close is good enough.1
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I track my time spent strength training, but I don't eat my exercise calories back on days I do.0
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