where are my calorie burned for weight training?

jiujitsuwarrior

How come the weight training exercises don't register as calories burned? Anybody that knows anything about fitness knows that weight training actually burns more calories per workout than cardio.

jiujitsuwarrior

i meant to say calories in the topic headline, i hate typos, lol.

OnionMomma

I log them all the time. I do more weights then cardio. I found it under "strength training" and not weight training. YOu just have to enter how many minutes you lifted for.

I just haven't figured out how to log each individual exercise separately.

jiujitsuwarrior

thanks for the reply and after you said that i did a search and found a site called fitclick.com that has a handy calculator right at the top of the page.

kaervaak

Weight training is hard to log because most of the calories you burn come after your workout during the "afterburn" phase when your body is rebuilding the muscles you used. When I switched from cardio to heavy weight training my TDEE went up by about 500 cal every day even when I wasn't lifting.