Why don't strength exercises count calories burnt?

chaosrock

I've been adding cardio and strength to MFP a lot lately and have noticed it only counts calories burnt for cardio, not strength. I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty darn sure that strength-building burns calories just like cardio does! I mean you'd probably have to do more work to burn as many cals, but it's counting 0. What's up with that?

FirecrackerJess

I just add in strength, as needed, and then go back in and add it as Cardio under for example, "Various Weight Machines" when I use different machines. And lump the calorie burn there.

Now, not sure I should or not, but that is how I do it.

heybales

Search for Strength Training under the cardio stuff. It's there because it's the only place to put calorie burning exercises.

And as you'll discover, it is much less burn than equal time cardio.

And that is absolutely true.

That entry BTW is for the lifting that has sets and reps and rests between the sets. Which is lowish calorie burn.
If doing circuit training with more reps and/or hardly any rests so lighter weight, that is under circuit training with correct higher calorie burn.

That section for logging the lifts, sets, reps, is merely a log. Nothing to do with the calories as you discovered.

Naturely

You can find calories burned under weight training

Driagnor

There's a really nice topic on it here:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1159044-hrms-cannot-count-calories-during-strength-training?hl=azdak#posts-18107457

TRD66

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