Body Pump/ Strength Training

Mjconnelly586
Mjconnelly586 Posts: 41 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello!
I am new to myfitnesspal and I am trying to log my exercise. Does anyone else do body pump? How do you log it? Do you break it up by each muscle group? (that seems a bit time consuming... I like myfitness pal because it is easy and convenient)

Also, when I log cardiovascular stuff myfitnesspal will say you burned __ amount of calories, but does not offer me this little nugget of encouragement with strength training. What is up with that? I get sweatier at body pump than I do on my runs. I like seeing that I burned calories.

Any tips and info would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Meg

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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    well body pump isn't really strength training- so I would just keep logging it as cardio.
  • danaird7
    danaird7 Posts: 1
    I log Body Pump as Cardio, and it is in the database. Just Search on Les Mills.

    I log strength training under cardio also, it does give a calorie estimate, but calorie burn in strength training is such a crap shoot because of weight used, intensity, amount of rest between sets, etc, etc, etc.
  • Mjconnelly586
    Mjconnelly586 Posts: 41 Member
    Thank you! That made my life a lot easier than trying to list it out. I just want a ball park figure anyways.

    And I am pretty certain that body pump is strength training as you lift weights the whole time- besides the breaks.

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