Strength training

Fuax75

Hello all I have been on for about three months and I have lost 15lbs since I started. Its my first post on this site I was just curious to know as to why when you enter exercise in to the strength training section it does not give a calorie burn amount?

carrie564

I think it might be because it will vary so much from person to person- way more than cardio would. But what you can do, is input them there so you can keep records; but then in the cardio section there is a generic 'strength training, weights' you can pick, and just put in about how many minutes you did. It'll at least give you a generic number to put in, to make you feel better.

sharonhauptman

zMaybe because often people pump a set (takes maybe 30 seconds, and then sit on that station doing nothing for 2-3 minutes before they do another set. Just saying.....

Chrisandsteph99

Put it in ciruit training under cardio.

zipnguyen

Strength Training... not enough of a calorie burn per the MFP database you say... It's going to depend upon the level of muscle mass you carry versus the intensity, frequency and volume of your workouts. I try not to use the 'suggested' caloric burn.

sugarbone

Weight lifting does not burn many calories, and calorie burn is often not the goal of weight lifting. The strength section is more for recording your lifts so you can see progression. However, you can search "strength training" under cardio to add calories burned.

However, there are SO many variables when it comes to calorie burn with strength training (are you doing weight training or volume training? Circuit? Pyramid? how long do you rest? etc) that it's just not worth recording without a heart rate monitor imo.

Fuax75

Thank you all I appreciate it.

albinogorilla

keep you rest between sets low, around a minute, call it circuit training under cardio...........heart rate stays up. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn doing EVERYTHING.

zipnguyen

Funny thing is I don't even record my exercise burn be it lifts, cardio or the like. As long as I hit my macronutrient totals. Because when it reads, you've burned 237 cals doing cardio for 17 mins, how do I really know it's 237? Then I adjust my macros to compensate and end up being underfed or overfed. Just saying...

Articeluvsmemphis

you can log it under cardio (strength training) it does burn calories.

Articeluvsmemphis

Weight lifting does not burn many calories. . .

It depends on what you're doing though. Today my heart rate was in the 160s-170s all the while I did my strength, that's pretty darn high, I burned over 500calories between that and 15minutes of cardio for a 60minute workout.