Stupid Question about Strength Training

rachaellynn91

It doesn't count calories lost with strength training but this is one the majority of my workout and two I really feel like this is more of a workout than cardiovascular at times. So is it bad that I am doing a lot of strength workout and is it still a good workout?

JNick77

It doesn't count calories lost with strength training but this is one the majority of my workout and two I really feel like this is more of a workout than cardiovascular at times. So is it bad that I am doing a lot of strength workout and is it still a good workout?

Strength training is an excellent workout. I wouldn't even worry about tracking your calories burnt from weights or cardio. If you find yourself feeling really rundown and starving then do a custom calorie goal adjustment and add back 5% to 10% more calories to your daily goal.

fitbydons

No questions are stupid! Counting calories when strength training is hard as you are working but not always getting your heart rate as high as you do when you do cardio. I honestly wouldn't worry about recording the calories you "burn" doing strength training. Just have the mindset that doing strength training will increase your muscle, which burns more calories at rest. I used to wear my polar watch to measure calories burned during a weights session just to get me to push harder tp get my heart rate up a little (ie doing supersets) - but I also very rarely eat my "exercise calories" unless I have done quite a bit of training.

How many sessions a week are you doing for strength training?

albinogorilla

look for strength training under cardio exercises, you will get your caloric credit..............or an estimate anyway

b0t23

how often do you do strength training?

what type of strength training and for how long each time?

I think if you are consistently active doing strength training you could adjust your activity level within your profile settings.

You could also get a heart rate monitor and try to calculate the calories lost that way. Don't forget to subtract the calories you would have burned during that period without the strength training.

rachaellynn91

I try to go to the gym at the least twice a week for a hour and the majority of the time I am there it's 20 minutes cardio and the rest is strength training

CyberEd312

Strength training is an excellent source of exercise which I highly recommend but I never count any calories burned from lifting do to the fact it is just to hard to get any kind of accuracy... I only count calories burned from my cardio per my HRM..... Best of Luck....

jadedone

look for strength training under cardio exercises, you will get your caloric credit..............or an estimate anyway

I count it every time.

And if I don't rest much between sets, I call it circuit training! (i.e. back to back exercises, with a short rest between each sequence)

Lleldiranne

When I do strength training, I generally do it as circuits, moving from one exercise to the next with little to no downtime (I do 1 set of each exercise then repeat the whole circuit so each muscle group gets a bit of rest). I also do some that pump up my heart rate, like jump-squats. Then I log it as circuit training-general under the cardio exercises. I generally eat back about all of my exercise calories, and I'm losing about 1/2 lb per week (which is what I have my goal set to).

Lleldiranne

I try to go to the gym at the least twice a week for a hour and the majority of the time I am there it's 20 minutes cardio and the rest is strength training

As long as it's not 2 days in a row, no worries. But make sure that you are giving a muscle group a day to rest/heal before working it again. It's okay to do strength training every day, just work different muscle groups (upper body vs lower body, or chest/back vs arms, etc)