tracking calories burned with strength/weight workouts

mandamae

Hi all, I am wondering if anyone tracks their strenght training/weight lifting as calories burned in the journal? I wear a heartrate monitor and do cardio first and try for weights twice a week, wondering if I should keep the heart rate monitor on and track the calories I burn while doing strenght/weights? advice anyone?

Mark1984Scotland

I put my HRM on when I was lifting weights and it didn't show a lot of calories burned because my heart rate wasn't up in the fat burning zone. Now maybe I just wasn't working out hard enough but I didn't find it very accurate personally.

Mark

Vanilladays

Hmmm I find this whole thing very confusing. :huh:
I'm lucky because the program at the gym tracks my 30 minute workout and gives me a calorie burn at the end of it....this is strength and cardio workout combined. I find though if I wear my HRM it tends to be a bit below the gym's figure.
I'm going with the gym's figure though and I can see the difference in my body so I'm happy :happy:

jshaps7

I use my HRM for tracking calories burned during weights, but there's a good chance it'll be somewhat inaccurate due to the spikes and drops in your HR during the active and rest periods of your workout. I use it more as a guideline but generally speaking, I try not to eat back the calories from weight lifting, only the ones from cardio.

rmhand

There is "strength training" under the cardio section on here. I find it accurate with my HRM.