How are calories from "strength training" tracked?

wanderingpilgrim

Help! I'm new to MyFitnessPal; wondering why no calorie count comes up for "strength training" when I'm tracking my exercise? I see "calories burned" show up for cardiovascular, but not strength training. Am I doing something wrong?

cmriverside

Since each person's intensity level and type of resistance routine is different, MFP may not give you your baseline calories burned on weight training. Mine auto-fills but I may have initially entered a value....way back when I first started.

Myfitnesspal uses an average calorie burn for activities based on your gender, age and weight. If you were to use a heart rate monitor or BodyBugg type device, you would get a more accurate estimate. Since everyone works out at different intensities, and even different intensities on different days, ALL the calorie burns used in Myfitnesspal's database are estimates.....not necessarily reliable.....hope that helps.

But the category is: Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)-- that's what you are using? You can input any calorie number you want in any exercise. They are user-customizable.



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LynnBirchfield

Although it doesn't make sense. Under exercise, go to the cardio and type in strength training. You enter how many minutes you did and it calculates the calories burned.

megsta21

Alot of people put "circuit training" for however long they did Strength... it gives them a rough estimate of calories burnt... =]

HazelDiva1913

yes i just started logging my strength as circuit. but when im doing strength training i make sure its constant and not too many breaks just like circuits

AnnaPixie

strength training is in the same database as cardio, dont ask me why?

good luck :flowerforyou:

wanderingpilgrim

Thanks everyone...got it figured out now.