strength exeercise not recognising calorie burn

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sammy3303
sammy3303 Posts: 5
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:ohwell: So right now i am not doing cardio due to a fractured heel and right now I have no access to stationary bike. so i do at least 200 different types of sit-up/crunches . . . squats with a bar bell . . . dead lifts . . . push-ups, etc. when I put them into my diary ther are no calories burned. Am i doing something wrong with the site???

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  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
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    yes. You're entering strength exercises under strength.

    Wha?

    If you want to get credit for calories burned, enter your lifting exercises under the cardio tab. Then they give you credit. The strength tab is for keeping track of reps/etc. and it doesn't calculate calories.
  • mse123
    mse123 Posts: 20 Member
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    Enter strength training in cardio section, enter amount of time !
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
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    You can put in "strength training" under cardiovascular to get a calorie burned. I find the number is pretty low. You can use a HRM or another site that estimates calories and manually enter them in as well.
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
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    yeah you can use strength training in the cardio section when lifting weghts.. for situps/pushups I would use calesthenics since it's more appropriate for that

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