how does adding strength excercise work

m78gin
m78gin Posts: 14
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi,

I have tried but in vain to get the funda of adding strength excercises in the diary....I do kieser training for 30mins and that burns approx. 200-250 cals as per my instructor but when i add it to the diary it doesnt give me any addition to cals of the day because of the excercise unlike the cardiovascular excercises. I have added it simply to cardiovascular excercises and manually added 200 cals...but how does this thing actually works?

thnx in advance for ur replies...:)

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  • RoadsterGirlie
    RoadsterGirlie Posts: 1,195 Member
    Adding additional lean muscle burns more calories, even at rest.

    Not only do you want to lift weights, but do strength training in general, like lunges, squats, plank moves, push ups, etc. There are many strength moves that you can do without ever picking up a weight.

    Cardio is good too, and has it's place for burning calories. Cardio will torch more calories in one session than strength training. However, strength training will allow your body to continue to burn calories, even after the workout is complete.
  • m78gin
    m78gin Posts: 14
    Hi,

    thnx for ur reply but i meant to ask how it works in the diary...adding the strength excercises.

    cheers
  • imhungry2012
    imhungry2012 Posts: 240 Member
    Search "strength training" under cardio and it will be there. You can also manually add the calories under cardio, too...by adding it to you "my exercise"
  • RoadsterGirlie
    RoadsterGirlie Posts: 1,195 Member
    Sorry, my bad. I don't use the diary on here, so I couldn't tell you.

    I still track all of my food and activity intake through Weight Watchers. The boards though are a wealth of information so I keep coming back.
  • m78gin
    m78gin Posts: 14
    Search "strength training" under cardio and it will be there. You can also manually add the calories under cardio, too...by adding it to you "my exercise"

    hmm found it thnx...:)
  • m78gin
    m78gin Posts: 14
    Sorry, my bad. I don't use the diary on here, so I couldn't tell you.

    I still track all of my food and activity intake through Weight Watchers. The boards though are a wealth of information so I keep coming back.

    no prbs! thnx anyways :)
  • jasonp_ritzert
    jasonp_ritzert Posts: 357 Member
    My only bit of advice when adding "strength training" under the cardio option is that you have to add a number of minutes, which I think can be a bit decieiving because two people can say they lifted for 60 minutes and one person do 20 sets and another do 10 sets with different rest intervals, so if both people enter 60 minutes into MFP, they get the same caloric burn, which I think is wrong. I typically enter one minute of strength training for each set I do and I think it comes out about even, or I just don't enter it at all and take those 'free' calories burned and not think about it when calculating to give me a larger deficit.

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