Lifting- How many calories burned?
Rogue_Minx
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Is there any surefire way to count the calories that you burn while lifting?
Every day, I try to do 30 minutes of cardio and then I move onto the weights, working a different muscle group each day. I started doing this about two months ago but I never know how to track the exercises on myfitnesspal.
Anyone else have any advice or are you wondering the same thing?
Please and thank you!
Every day, I try to do 30 minutes of cardio and then I move onto the weights, working a different muscle group each day. I started doing this about two months ago but I never know how to track the exercises on myfitnesspal.
Anyone else have any advice or are you wondering the same thing?
Please and thank you!
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Not really, its not many0
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I'd get a heart rate monitor if you want to be super accurate. I'm considering getting one myself.
Edited to add: If my heart rate is up for a substantial length of time I log it under Cardio/Strength Training. I usually round the calories burned down, though, because I never want to eat back too many exercise calories. It's worked for me so far, which is why I haven't bothered with a HRM yet.0 -
Lifting weights does not burn many calories at all because it is not cardio. HOWEVER, the more muscle mass your body has, the more calories you will burn ALL THE TIME - at rest, sleeping, doing your daily activities, and doing your cardio workout. It's worth it for toning and to increase bone density but it will not burn enough calories alone to even bother trying to log. If you want to log it just to be proud of yourself for it (which is what I do!), go ahead! It helps!0
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I don't know how intense everyone's weight lifting sessions are, or how heavy they're lifting...but the general consensus seems to be that you don't burn many calories weight lifting. In my personal experience, my heart rate gets as high if not higher during a lifting session than a cardio session...and I typically have a sopping wet shirt to prove it. I don't use an HRM or even log weight lifting in MFP but I feel like lifting can potentially burn a lot more calories than people think, depending on the intensity of the lifting session.0
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I don't know how intense everyone's weight lifting sessions are, or how heavy they're lifting...but the general consensus seems to be that you don't burn many calories weight lifting. In my personal experience, my heart rate gets as high if not higher during a lifting session than a cardio session...and I typically have a sopping wet shirt to prove it. I don't use an HRM or even log weight lifting in MFP but I feel like lifting can potentially burn a lot more calories than people think, depending on the intensity of the lifting session.
Heart rate and sweat are not a indication of number of calories burned0 -
Wear an HRM with Calories Burned tracker for your complete workout (and log as ONE workout). Name it...Moving the Gym forcefully over the trolls.
EDIT: Make sure that you are maintaining a High HR...which mean, little rest between sets and routine changes.0 -
Wear an HRM for your complete workout. Name it...Moving the Gym forcefully over the trolls.
HRMs are modeled after a constant cardio style activity and are not accurate to weight lifting0 -
Wear an HRM for your complete workout. Name it...Moving the Gym forcefully over the trolls.
HRMs are modeled after a constant cardio style activity and are not accurate to weight lifting
See my EDIT0 -
Wear an HRM for your complete workout. Name it...Moving the Gym forcefully over the trolls.
HRMs are modeled after a constant cardio style activity and are not accurate to weight lifting
See my EDIT
Still incorrect0 -
I think the effect is not WHILE you're lifting, but rather the increase in the number of calories burned throughout the day.0
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Don't worry about calories when lifting weights. It's for toning
Cardio is where you burn calories0 -
If you type "strength training" into the cardiovascular search box on MFP you can enter your time there. I do tend to be on the conservative side with this and enter one minute of 'strength training' for each set that I complete becuase someone can say they they lifted for an hour and may have only done five sets vs. someone that lifts for an hour and does 30 sets.
It may not be the most accurate, but it gives you something to work with. I've been using it for a while and it seems to be somewhat accurate or you can just not log it and give yourself some extra calories to work with.0 -
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I log my time under circuit training. It will depend on how hard you lift. I get a great work out lifting. I do not rest between sets and I do super sets and am out of breathe and sweating badly when I finish my 25-30 minutes of lifting. It is strenous and a cardio burn. But I work HARD at it. I do not waste any time. If you are lifting and resting and taking your time, you probably are not burning many calories, but building muscle and strengthening bone density is very important to overall health.0
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Don't worry about calories when lifting weights. It's for toning
100%. This is why Andy Bolton is a vascular, ripped god.0 -
I think the effect is not WHILE you're lifting, but rather the increase in the number of calories burned throughout the day.
^^^This!0 -
Wear an HRM for your complete workout. Name it...Moving the Gym forcefully over the trolls.
HRMs are modeled after a constant cardio style activity and are not accurate to weight lifting
See my EDIT
Still incorrect
Negative Ghost Rider. If you're HR is increased, you burn. This is fact. When you combine BOTH Cardio and Weights, whether one right after the other at a sustained increase of HR, you burn more than Lifting or Cardio, alone. If you take breaks longer than 15 secs between your sets, and are not pushing your limits. Additionally, you must maintain an elevated HR. It is best done by mixing your lifting routines - for example - Curls, Lat pull-downs, Military Press, Bench Press 10 reps = 1 set with <10s interchange.0 -
Lifting weights does not burn many calories at all because it is not cardio.
That's not exactly true. hell you burn calories while you sleep. You don't have to be doing cardio to burn calories. It *does* depend on intensity and the length of time you are lifting. An average burn might be around 200 calories in a one hour session, but that can vary widely, depending on the person and on the intensity, how long your rest between sets, etc.
http://www.answerfitness.com/296/how-many-calories-are-burned-weight-liftin/
http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist3.htm
http://www.livestrong.com/article/338469-how-to-calculate-calories-burned-weight-lifting/0 -
I think the effect is not WHILE you're lifting, but rather the increase in the number of calories burned throughout the day.
And this!0 -
Wear an HRM for your complete workout. Name it...Moving the Gym forcefully over the trolls.
HRMs are modeled after a constant cardio style activity and are not accurate to weight lifting
See my EDIT
Still incorrect
Negative Ghost Rider. If you're HR is increased, you burn. This is fact. When you combine BOTH Cardio and Weights, whether one right after the other at a sustained increase of HR, you burn more than Lifting or Cardio, alone. If you take breaks longer than 15 secs between your sets, and are not pushing your limits. Additionally, you must maintain an elevated HR. It is best done by mixing your lifting routines - for example - Curls, Lat pull-downs, Military Press, Bench Press 10 reps = 1 set with <10s interchange.
You are incorrect, the number of calories burned by your heart is very small, increasing your heart rate does not increase calorie burn0 -
Wear an HRM for your complete workout. Name it...Moving the Gym forcefully over the trolls.
HRMs are modeled after a constant cardio style activity and are not accurate to weight lifting
See my EDIT
Still incorrect
Negative Ghost Rider. If you're HR is increased, you burn. This is fact. When you combine BOTH Cardio and Weights, whether one right after the other at a sustained increase of HR, you burn more than Lifting or Cardio, alone. If you take breaks longer than 15 secs between your sets, and are not pushing your limits. Additionally, you must maintain an elevated HR. It is best done by mixing your lifting routines - for example - Curls, Lat pull-downs, Military Press, Bench Press 10 reps = 1 set with <10s interchange.
You are incorrect, the number of calories burned by your heart is very small, increasing your heart rate does not increase calorie burn
Really? Increasing your hear rate does not increase calorie burn? When your hear works harder, it's to remove toxic carbon dioxide from your muscles, so it's doing the same procedure for cardio as it is for weight training. I think you need to do some research because weight training done in the right way can burn just as many, if not more, calories as traditional cardiovascular activity. Sure, someone that waits 5 minutes between sets is not going to burn as many calories as somone on a treadmill but I can get my heartrate into the fat burning zone with weight training and keep it there pretty easily weight training.0 -
You are incorrect, the number of calories burned by your heart is very small, increasing your heart rate does not increase calorie burn
Please, post where you know this knowledge. Mine comes from being trained by the US Army as Medic, of which, part of my duties were to oversee the BOLO's
INCREASING YOUR HEART BURNS.
here is WELL KNOWN report...I'll give you the short highlight:
Will your fitness level effect the number of calories you burn?
Yes, as you do endurance training your body adapts in many physiological mechanisms. One positive adaptation is a lower submaximal heart rate intensity during your aerobic workouts at a given oxygen consumption. Fit individuals will often challenge themselves by exercising harder, elevating their heart rate intensity and thus burn more calories because they are also then elevating their submaximal oxygen consumption.
Can certain types of exercise burn more calories than others?
Based on the fundamental principles of indirect calorimetry, to burn more calories during exercise you need to increase oxygen consumption.
Feel free to read: http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article folder/caloricexp.html0 -
If someone startles you, your heart rate goes up too, even though you don't move. It might go as high as when you are sprinting.
Therefore, being startled burns the same calories as sprinting.
I'm going to go watch two scary movies at once and burn a thousand calories.0 -
Really? Increasing your hear rate does not increase calorie burn? When your hear works harder, it's to remove toxic carbon dioxide from your muscles, so it's doing the same procedure for cardio as it is for weight training. I think you need to do some research because weight training done in the right way can burn just as many, if not more, calories as traditional cardiovascular activity. Sure, someone that waits 5 minutes between sets is not going to burn as many calories as somone on a treadmill but I can get my heartrate into the fat burning zone with weight training and keep it there pretty easily weight training.
Yes really
Calories are burned is determine by the number of muscle cells that are activated to preform your activity
THAT is what uses the energy and uses the oxygen
When weight training you are usually activating a small number of groups, such as your bicep when doing your brocurls
That causes a increase in heart rate to delivery oxygen to those cells, even though the rest of your body did not consume the energy, only a small amount of that oxygen would be consumed
Doing a series of strength training will cause your heart rate to bump up over and over but only consume a small amount of oxygen (which is what we are trying to measure to determine calorie burn)0 -
Please, post where you know this knowledge. Mine comes from being trained by the US Army as Medic, of which, part of my duties were to oversee the BOLO's
Ask for a refund?0 -
If someone startles you, your heart rate goes up too, even though you don't move. It might go as high as when you are sprinting.
Therefore, being startled burns the same calories as sprinting.
I'm going to go watch two scary movies at once and burn a thousand calories.
Yes, your heart rates spikes when startled, but how long does it stay there? Go do 30 minutes of jogging on a treadmill and do 30 of squatting or leg press and tell me which one you can recover from quicker and that you don't burn as many calories lifting as with cardio.0 -
Really? Increasing your hear rate does not increase calorie burn? When your hear works harder, it's to remove toxic carbon dioxide from your muscles, so it's doing the same procedure for cardio as it is for weight training. I think you need to do some research because weight training done in the right way can burn just as many, if not more, calories as traditional cardiovascular activity. Sure, someone that waits 5 minutes between sets is not going to burn as many calories as somone on a treadmill but I can get my heartrate into the fat burning zone with weight training and keep it there pretty easily weight training.
Yes really
Calories are burned is determine by the number of muscle cells that are activated to preform your activity
THAT is what uses the energy and uses the oxygen
When weight training you are usually activating a small number of groups, such as your bicep when doing your brocurls
That causes a increase in heart rate to delivery oxygen to those cells, even though the rest of your body did not consume the energy, only a small amount of that oxygen would be consumed
Doing a series of strength training will cause your heart rate to bump up over and over but only consume a small amount of oxygen (which is what we are trying to measure to determine calorie burn)
Ever heard of HIIT cardio training? Basically the same principles of weight training... a period of increased stress followed by a period of low stress/rest.
*EDIT* Also, the first purpose of your heart rate increasing is to remove carbone dioxide (very toxic to muscles). Basic human physiology my friend.0 -
It's for toning
Cardio is where you burn calories
The word 'toning' makes me cringe.
You may not 'burn many calories whilst lifting', but lifting heavy will increase the amount of calories you burn overall. Really lifting is a win win situation.0 -
If someone startles you, your heart rate goes up too, even though you don't move. It might go as high as when you are sprinting.
Therefore, being startled burns the same calories as sprinting.
I'm going to go watch two scary movies at once and burn a thousand calories.
Yes, your heart rates spikes when startled, but how long does it stay there? Go do 30 minutes of jogging on a treadmill and do 30 of squatting or leg press and tell me which one you can recover from quicker and that you don't burn as many calories lifting as with cardio.
My heart rate goes to about 170 during a single high effort deadlift pull. It stays there for about 20 seconds, then drops to about 150 for another 20 seconds, and eventually gets down to resting in a few minutes.
When I run hard, my heart rate is around 160-165.
So, you're saying that the 40 seconds where I'm kneeling, perfectly still, recovering from my deadlift max rep attempt burns the same number of calories as 40 seconds of running very fast?0 -
If someone startles you, your heart rate goes up too, even though you don't move. It might go as high as when you are sprinting.
Therefore, being startled burns the same calories as sprinting.
I'm going to go watch two scary movies at once and burn a thousand calories.
Yes, your heart rates spikes when startled, but how long does it stay there? Go do 30 minutes of jogging on a treadmill and do 30 of squatting or leg press and tell me which one you can recover from quicker and that you don't burn as many calories lifting as with cardio.
My heart rate goes to about 170 during a single high effort deadlift pull. It stays there for about 20 seconds, then drops to about 150 for another 20 seconds, and eventually gets down to resting in a few minutes.
When I run hard, my heart rate is around 160-165.
So, you're saying that the 40 seconds where I'm kneeling, perfectly still, recovering from my deadlift max rep attempt burns the same number of calories as 40 seconds of running very fast?
^^ this
People, its not heart rate that burns calories, its activity0
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