No Calories Burned For Weight Lifting?

denisedwrt

I am sure this topic has been covered before but I am going to throw out the "new" card! My question is, why doesn't MFP give credit for calories burned when lifting? I used to be a personal trainer and I know that you burn calories when lifting......

38meanie

Which is why I sometimes don't even bother logging them in but its got to count for something

Barbellerella

Its under Cardiovascular, then Strength Training. The Strength section is more for tracking reps from what I understand..

sugarlips1980

You can log it under cardio, there's strength training listed in the database

Psalm17v22

You have to log the strength training under cardio for it to log the calories burned. I think the weight lifting log is for you to keep track of how much you are lifting.

God bless,
Karen

Guamybear

I didn't even know that..

calamity71

Thanks for the post and answer! I had quit logging mine.

Madholm

Yep took me a while to realize it was there myself. Now I just log minutes of training for an estimate of calories burned.

faupster

You have to log the strength training under cardio for it to log the calories burned. I think the weight lifting log is for you to keep track of how much you are lifting.

God bless,
Karen

truth

denisedwrt

You can log it under cardio, there's strength training listed in the database

Awesome!! I didn't even check that!!

n0ob

Lifting weights is the only form of exercise that creates awesome instead of burning something...