Weights and Calories

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she_lley2003
she_lley2003 Posts: 4
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When you put in strength training on here it doesnt change you calorie intake... why is this? surely you are burning calories while weight training?

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  • stanluoser
    stanluoser Posts: 82
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    Yes you burn calories while lifting and you also have a 48 hour afterburn.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
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    There is a "strength training" workout under cardio which will give you estimate calories burned. Just log it under that.
  • she_lley2003
    she_lley2003 Posts: 4
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    Ah ok.... will try that then.... just wanna have an idea of what the work im doing is getting me!!
  • bdamaster60
    bdamaster60 Posts: 595 Member
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    don't count calories burned from weight training because they will be heavily inaccurate. Unless you can evenly factor in tempo, volume, range of motion, density, load etc.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
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    don't count calories burned from weight training because they will be heavily inaccurate. Unless you can evenly factor in tempo, volume, range of motion, density, load etc.

    Yep! But if you insist, OP, Work = Force x Distance. :-D
  • taekwonkenpo
    taekwonkenpo Posts: 1,004
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    i log it under cardio as mentioned earlier. However i only log it as half the time i am working out to "help" with accuracy. For example if i am at the gym for an hour i will log 30 minutes of strength training.

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