weights and calorie burn

aetzkorn14
aetzkorn14 Posts: 169 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Is it just me or does MFP underestimate calorie burn for weight training. My HR stays 130ish when I weight train so I feel like 200cal in an hour might be a little on the low side. Maybe it is the breaks in between sets it is accounting for, but I keep my rest limited or else I would be there all night. Thoughts?? I do cardio as well so I don't rely on it for my calorie burn just curious if anyone else thought the same thing.

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  • TechOutside
    TechOutside Posts: 101 Member
    I'll just copy what I wrote on another reply but add that I try to keep my heartrate in my zone 3 and 4, when it tells me that I drop into zone three, that's my trigger to go again.

    I bought the zephyr bluetooth and use icardio as my workouts beat me up way more than bike riding or the elliptical and it didn't seem right to me that only a couple hundred was expended.

    I am getting closer to 700 to 900 calories expended according to mine but I only spend about 45 minutes at a time, sometimes I'll go more, but the app let's me know when I drop down a heart rate zone (interrupting my music) which lets me know when to get to the next set. So I have been resting less and moving more, which shortens my workouts trying to stay in the higher zones.

    I don't know if it's right, wrong or indifferent, but so far it's working for me.

    Edit, looking at the numbers again, it's more like 600-800 calories.

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