Diary - Strength Record (No calories burned)?

Cyrowski

When I record strength training, such as weight lifting, etc., it does not show any calories burned, like it does when I record cardio. Anyone else experience this and am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Cyro

Emv79

It won't, so no, you're not doing anything wrong

What you can do, is use "strength training" in cardio, select the minutes you spent doing it and it will give an approximate number of calories burned. Then you can record the details under strength section (the one you were using bellow the cardio section) and monitor progress in sets and weights.

It's far from perfect (a HRM would be more accurate as this calculates based on time, not type or effort), but it's the way I do it.

dvisser1

Under the cardio section there is a strength training exercise. Use that for weight lifting calories and the strength training section for tracking your lifting progress.

Cyrowski

Got it. Thanks you guys!

crystalsinger45

Helped me too...thanks

Falluso

The extra burned calories from lifting has left me with a nutrional deficit. I can clearly see why and where now. This post helped me too, thank you all.

daren76

This is completely misleading for people that know how many calories you burn based off energy output.

This is suggesting you burn 5 calories per minute strength training. I guess you could assume people would lift "technically" 1 minute out of every 4, and put down 5 minutes as "strength training", and the totals would be more realistic, but strength training is in between ATP-PC and Glycolytic in terms of creating ATP which burns calories. ATP-PC is 36 calories a minute (typically an activity you can't do for more than 15 seconds before having to stop to rest), and Glycolytic is 16 calories per minute, typically an activity where you start losing power and increase in lactic acid after 30 seconds (and need to rest).

If you are weight lifting, you are burning between 16-36 calories per minute, and for most people that do sets of 10-15, where you fatigue out at the last rep, it's not unreasonable to think you are running in the ATP-PC levels (36 calories a minute)

Putting down 10 minute of "weight training", where you are actually lifting that 10 minutes (you are in the gym for 40 minutes, but 30 minutes of rest), you have certainly burned more than 50 calories. You are looking at more like 250-350 calories.

Something to keep in mind if you are using the default.