logging calories burned for power yoga& strength training?

victoriannsays

I always just logged it as 1 cal burned because i was under the impression that its strength training and you shouldnt log that.. but according to me heart rate i burn 150 to 200 cals while doing it. I also see friends logging there weight lifting and burning like 200 to 300 calories.. how accurate is it?

jamstutz85

bump...im wondering about this also

pbanny66

You burn calories weight training. I'm 15 1/2 stone and do weights for about 40 mins and I log 195 calories.

Checked this out on a few websites and it's not a million miles away.

Cheers

victoriannsays

Lol no one else?

Capt_Apollo

you do burn calories while strength training, but it's very hard to track with a heart rate monitor or anything.


i prefer to go by the "TDEE- 20%" calorie method.

victoriannsays

My tdee is around 2200 and i eat 1600.

Capt_Apollo

My tdee is around 2200 and i eat 1600.

is that your TDEE for lightly active, moderate?

minus 20% is 1760.

remember too, your body works more on a weekly basis, rather than day-to-day. i know that if i go for a run on monday and burn 400 calories, i'm not really that hungry that day. but i might be a little extra hungry on tuesday and wednesday. so if i eat an extra 200 calories those days, i've broken even for the week.

that is why i prefer the TDEE-20% method. i track my exercises here, but i just put in "1 calorie burned"

jacksonpt

As others have said... you do burn cals lifting, but it's VERY hard to determine how many. And HRMs are not accurate for strength training.

I've talked with a few people I consider experts on calorie burns, and I've read a few articles that lead me to believe that a good strength training session burns roughly the same amount of cals as a good cardio session. Cardio burns the majority of the cals during the workout with very few burned post workout. Strength training is just the opposite... burning relatively few cals during the workout but many more post workout (recovery).

I will say that the heavier you are, the more the calorie burn favors cardio (since weight increases workload which increases cals burned)... and the leaner you are the more the calorie burn will favor strength training.

I know that's kind of ambiguous, but that's the best conclusion I've been able to come to on cals burned while strength training.

Personally, a good cardio burn is ~10 cals per minute. If I cared about cals burned while lifting, I'd log about 7-8 cals per minute for strength training.


The other side of this conversation is that if you are worried about calories and getting into a deficit... do cardio and log the cals. If you are focused on changing how you look, then lift and don't worry about those cals.

4_Lisa

I was told it depends on if you are taking long rests in between, if your heart isn't pumping at a higher rate your not burning calories. My trainer has me doing some sort of exercise during my rest period (usually squats when doing heavy upper body weights) to keep my heart rate up.