Weight lifting doesn’t burn calories?

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amtmusic
amtmusic Posts: 1 Member
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How come only my cardio part of my workout shows up as burning any calories?

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  • Phirrgus
    Phirrgus Posts: 1,894 Member
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    Enter your weight training under cardio also. Go to cardio and search for your exercise, or you can create your own.
  • TrishSeren
    TrishSeren Posts: 587 Member
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    It does burn calories but there are too many factors involved for MFP to give you a truly accurate burn. It depends on your weight, your height, sex, weight lifted, reps, set, rest rates etc.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 32,172 Member
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    Use the "Strength Training" entry under the Cardiovascular exercise heading. It assumes average embedded rests between sets and that sort of thing. It'll be close enough.

    The Strength training heading is just intended for keeping track of what weight training exercises you do (and there are external apps that do it better, frankly). All calorie-burning stuff gets entered under Cardiovascular.

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