Adding exercise to MFP

onehecticmom

I know that adding cardio workouts add back in calories for the day, but does adding strength do the same? I added some in today, but nothing changed. Did I not do enough to make a difference? Or will it never change anything?

SheehyCFC

The strength training section doesn't automatically calculate exercise calories as your sets/reps will vary in time.

But you can enter "strength training" in the cardio section and add that.

Shweedog

You have to add strength training into the cardio section to get calories burned. The strength training log is just for you to keep track of your progress.

TTHdred

You can track your strength training under cardio if you’d like to account for the calories burned. To add under cardio you can create your own with calorie burned estimates or using an HRM or chose Calisthenics. Doing under the strength training option is mostly used for people who want to track their reps, weights etc to see their progress and improve/increase. And, since the second option does not affect your calories, you can do both if both are important for you.

Kirsty_UK

Calories burnt from strength training are very difficult to measure - apart from them varying far too much from person to person (and session to session depending on how fast your do your reps etc), even a heart rate monitor wont accurately measure it.

Kirsty_UK

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onehecticmom

Calories burnt from strength training are very difficult to measure - apart from them varying far too much from person to person (and session to session depending on how fast your do your reps etc), even a heart rate monitor wont accurately measure it.

So, do you not treat it as calorie burn? Would that put my body into fast mode if I don't make up for those calories?