Exercise calories

Janny41

When I go to the gym I do 45 minutes of cardio exercise and then I do weights and sit ups and lunges. However, when I enter the weights etc to my exercise diary it does not give me any calories - can anyone explain why this is. Surely they must use calories as well as the cardio exercises. Very puzzled.:noway:

erickirb

Enter "strength training" under the cardio section to get an estimate of calories burned.

♥_Ellybean_♥

Enter it as "strength training" or "circuit training" and it will add ur calories... The only thing is I wore a HRM for my strength training and it wasn't any where near as many calories as MFP says it was.

Janny41

Thanks Eric.

Annista

Hi, enter strength training/weightlifting. I would get an HRM because I think the site must be an average. I lift heavy and burn way more calories than the site gives me!!!

mamagooskie

I just wanted to say I found the same thing too. I wear my HRM for all my workouts and weight lifting NEVER burns as much calories for me as cardio.

Janny41

Thanks for all the info.