Calculating Cardio and strength training calories burned

galbraith_carol

Can anyone give help on how to calculate the calories burned for workouts that combine both cardio and strength training together? I would like to know how to enter it into my fitness tracking for the day. For example, if Im doing a 55 minute workout should it be listed as 55 mins cardio, and 55 mins strength training? Any ideas of how to calculate this?

jzsor12

I had trouble with that. But I recently purchased a heart rate monitor.
Maybe do cardio one day and strength training another, instead of together

Fruch02

I do CF so its both weightlifting and cardio so I just use Circuit training for the exercise. Just my 2 cents.

Pohudet

get a heart rate monitor. It will calculate calories burned during exercise.
Ever since I got mine, I began to do jumping jacks in between my strength training sets, so as to increase my heart rate.
Best investment I made this year!

Jynus

HRM is ineffective for calculating calories burned from strength training. and going by times based upon sites and even reps is still useless as someone squatting 300lbs for 12 reps pushing failure will burn FARRRR more calories than someone doing 50+ bodyweight squats taking twice as long for example. the only real rule is the more resistance you are able to push, and the more often you hit progressive overload while doing so, the more calories you burn.

As for increasing heart rate during rest by doing exercise, you're shooting yourself in the foot, don't do that... it's called rest for a reason.

weefreemen

I've found a fairly comprehensive website that seems to have a large listing of different exercises at different rates. I've found it very helpful especially when hill walking.

http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburned.htm

newmooon56

HRM is ineffective for calculating calories burned from strength training. and going by times based upon sites and even reps is still useless as someone squatting 300lbs for 12 reps pushing failure will burn FARRRR more calories than someone doing 50+ bodyweight squats taking twice as long for example. the only real rule is the more resistance you are able to push, and the more often you hit progressive overload while doing so, the more calories you burn.

As for increasing heart rate during rest by doing exercise, you're shooting yourself in the foot, don't do that... it's called rest for a reason.

Say what? Interval training - look it up- the BEST for fat burn and strength in one neat little package. Rest doesnt mean rest your heart- it means rest the muscle that worked. Cardio and strength together is the greatest discovery in exercise well since they discovered resting =/

Jynus

HRM is ineffective for calculating calories burned from strength training. and going by times based upon sites and even reps is still useless as someone squatting 300lbs for 12 reps pushing failure will burn FARRRR more calories than someone doing 50+ bodyweight squats taking twice as long for example. the only real rule is the more resistance you are able to push, and the more often you hit progressive overload while doing so, the more calories you burn.

As for increasing heart rate during rest by doing exercise, you're shooting yourself in the foot, don't do that... it's called rest for a reason.

Say what? Interval training - look it up- the BEST for fat burn and strength in one neat little package. Rest doesnt mean rest your heart- it means rest the muscle that worked. Cardio and strength together is the greatest discovery in exercise well since they discovered resting =/

intervals are not strength training.

strength training is using your ATP-CP energy system to power Type IIb muscle fibres. Done properly, you won't be doing any cardio during rest. You'll be too dam tired to.

and exercise doesn't burn fat. it burns calories. what burns fat is total calories being eaten throughout the day being less that what your body expends..