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why no calories for 'strength' exercises?

Rockinghorse_winner
Rockinghorse_winner Posts: 3
edited January 4 in Fitness and Exercise
Been enjoying the mfp android app, but noticed an anomaly: calories ate only subtracted from your daily total for cardio, not for
Strength exercises like weight training. Is this a bug in the program?

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  • jasonp_ritzert
    jasonp_ritzert Posts: 357 Member
    If you go under "Cardiovascular Activity" and type in "strength training", you will find results. I question how accurate it may be because two people can say they lifted for an hour with one doing 10 sets and another doing 30 sets, so I normally enter one minute for each set of muscle training that I do.
  • crazybookworm
    crazybookworm Posts: 779 Member
    The Cardio is based by general entries and estimations. When it comes to weight training, it is too specific. Reps, weight used, sets, etc. Your best bet is to wear a Heart Rate Monitor and track how much YOU burn. Then you can enter it in your exercises yourself.
  • b0bstewart
    b0bstewart Posts: 6
    its because its all a guess. Even the cardio exercises are just a guess. It is hard to calculate how many calories are burned someone at 210 benching 250 compared to someone at 160 benching the same.... that among the thousands of other lifts/weight combinations.
  • Rockinghorse_winner
    Rockinghorse_winner Posts: 3
    Thanks. That helps. I just wonder why it doesn't include calories if you choose Strength Training outright.
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