Calories burned strength training

Goddaessa
Goddaessa Posts: 10 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Should I count the calories i burn while lifting weights? I wear a heart rate monitor while doing squats and lunges and I burn quite a few calories. I would love to be able to count it against my caloric intake.

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  • coral_b
    coral_b Posts: 264 Member
    Personally, I do.It's purposeful exercise, and it makes me feel more secure using my Polar Ft4. Also it's not often that I will be doing cardio on days I lift. I like to keep track of my progress in all areas x
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    HRM's are not made for that type of exercise and will give inflated burns which may make you feel good but will bite you in the *kitten* if you eat them back. HRM's are set up with algorithms for steady state cardio like running not the for low heart rate levels of lifting. While you may feel like lifting is really burning up the calories, it isn't. The benefit is that muscle burns more calories than fat to exist, not in the act of building the muscle itself.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/help/faq/91-doesn-t-<span class=
  • LCFulmer
    LCFulmer Posts: 183 Member
    I wear one... my HRM has three levels and I set it to level 1 for strength training... level 2 for moderate cardio and level 3 for high endurance like Insanity. You are still burning calories while weight lifting.
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    Should I count the calories i burn while lifting weights? I wear a heart rate monitor while doing squats and lunges and I burn quite a few calories. I would love to be able to count it against my caloric intake.

    i dont.
  • whitebalance
    whitebalance Posts: 1,654 Member
    For a full-body compound lifts workout that has me panting, working to or just below the point of failure on every final work set, with no more than a minute or two rest between sets, I log a burn of about 300 kcal/hour. Before I started doing that, I was waking up with headaches on the day after my lifting workouts and I was continuing to lose weight at my "maintenance" level.

    For anything less intense than that, I might log half that burn or just leave it alone. I don't trust my HRM for this because of what others have said here. It's not really cardio.

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