No Calories Burned for Strength Training?

labvet2013
labvet2013 Posts: 1
edited November 9 in Fitness and Exercise
Am I missing something? According to this program, there are ZERO calories burned for strength training? Only cardio? I just did a ton of squats and lunges and then a lot of ab work followed by some upper body weight training. And I can promise you that I was burning calories the whole time.

Is there some setting or something that I missed? Because that doesn't seem right at all.

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  • BigDaddy822
    BigDaddy822 Posts: 99
    No you didn't miss anything. It does not count strenght training as burning calories. Obviously you are burning calories when you are working out. there is websites online that you can put your exercise in and it will give you an estimate on how many calories you burned.
  • vjrose
    vjrose Posts: 809 Member
    Use calisthenics or circuit training, they are both in there.
  • bunnzye2
    bunnzye2 Posts: 56
    I ENTERED "STRENGTH TRAINING" IN THE CARDIO SECTION AND GOT A CALORIE BURN COUNT. SEEMED KINDA LOW THOUGH.
  • junyr
    junyr Posts: 416 Member
    Go check out the MFP FAQ, it addresses this with a good explanation.
  • beckylawrence70
    beckylawrence70 Posts: 752 Member
    I put my strength trng wkouts under cardio and add it myself and just log the time I worked out, I wear a HRM that tells me what I burned, I don't care about breaking it all down to body parts I've worked out........
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I really, really wish they'd put this info on the exercise page instead of tucked away in the FAQ.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/help/faq/91-doesn-t-strength-training-burn-calories-why-don-t-you-show-any-calories-burned-for-strength-training
  • vamphlett41
    vamphlett41 Posts: 9 Member
    Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)
  • nototto
    nototto Posts: 7
    Wondered the same thing as well...and what about the calories burned doing all the repair work on the muscles after the workout?
  • mariangel74
    mariangel74 Posts: 4
    I wear my heart rate monitor while strength training also then i enter the calories burned for that session.
  • JanieJack
    JanieJack Posts: 3,831 Member
    I was disappointed in this too. There are two entries under cardio that address this, both have been mentioned by previous posters: strength training and calisthenics. Calisthenics gives a higher calorie burn, but I'm not sure which one is more accurate.

    I use weight training videos that have moderate weight w/a lot of reps and end up getting your heart rate up high enough that I feel comfortable logging these as cardio.
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