Question on lifting weights

gettinghealthy777

I started lifting weights. I am lifting 5 pounds, 3 times, 17 reps each. I don' t know how to add this to my daily exercise report. What do you put in under? I tired lifting weight, but nothing came up. Does anyone know.? I would really appreciate it if you could tell me

trud72

ive tried also to do this on a number of occasons and nothing ever comes up so now i just don't bother lol

catwrangler

type in "dumb bell shoulder press"

tazhinshaw

just put "weights"

Athena413

I always log mine as cardiovascular - there's an option for strength training.

Chowder_17

you have to add it under cardio. BEWARE! It will overestimate your calories. A HRM is the best way to show how many cals you've burned

dancingdeer

Yes - add it under "cardio". the data base on this site isnt' too great and it will overestimate your calories. It's good to have a record though of what you did, when!

gettinghealthy777

you have to add it under cardio. BEWARE! It will overestimate your calories. A HRM is the best way to show how many cals you've burned

what is an HRM?

gettinghealthy777

Yes - add it under "cardio". the data base on this site isnt' too great and it will overestimate your calories. It's good to have a record though of what you did, when!

I walk 1 to 2 hours a night. I add that in my exercise. I wonder if the walking calories are over estimated also?

anubis609

you have to add it under cardio. BEWARE! It will overestimate your calories. A HRM is the best way to show how many cals you've burned

what is an HRM?

Heart Rate Monitor.

Preferably one with a chest strap and that count calories expended/burned. Not JUST your heart rate.

Products like Polar, Garmin, Timex, and the Body Bugg all count calories burned.

Chowder_17

you have to add it under cardio. BEWARE! It will overestimate your calories. A HRM is the best way to show how many cals you've burned

what is an HRM?

Heart Rate Monitor.

Preferably one with a chest strap and that count calories expended/burned. Not JUST your heart rate.

Products like Polar, Garmin, Timex, and the Body Bugg all count calories burned.

I have the Polar FT4 and I love it! $55 including shipping on Amazon

hewhoiscd

As an aside, try to use weights that give you a good workout between 10 and 12 reps max. It's really more complicated than that, but as a general rule, that's the usual guideline for "toning" verse bulking or strength training.

Not to say 17 reps won't help ya out, but the general consensus is that it's not efficient

TrainingWithTonya

First, you can log the individual exercises under the strength training section so that you can track your weights and reps to make sure you are progressing with those later. Second, you can log the time you spend doing your lifting routine under cardio as Strength Training to get the calorie burn estimate from it.

Finally, don't rely on a heart rate monitor to estimate your calories for strength training. The way heart rate monitors are designed, they are only accurate for steady state cardio if you have no other issues that effect your heart rate (IE: heart conditions, medications, caffeine intake, etc). They are not accurate for things like weight training where you get your heart rate up for a few minutes, then decrease your heart rate while you rest between sets, then bring it back up, and back down, etc. Because of the variations in heart rate, it can't get an accurate average to estimate calorie burns from. It's actually more accurate to do a lot of math and physics to estimate calories used to move x amount of weight y distance z amount of times, and then convert the calories to kilocalories (or Calories, what everyone other then physicists call calories or the ones we eat), but that is way too much math for most people. So, through various tests and research studies, the MET system was developed and is about as accurate as you can get for strength training. I believe that is what MFP uses, but they use the lowest MET estimate for strength training on a spectrum of MET levels for various intensities of weight training. Therefore, for ease and accuracy, I'd recommend just following the MFP calorie counts. If you want to get more accurate, you can look up the METs compendium and see the other MET levels to estimate your calorie burns, or you can take a physics class or two to estimate it yourself.