Calories for weight training?

JuliaCarman
JuliaCarman Posts: 20 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello, we are new to this program and are just finding our way around the site. So this might be a dumb question, but do you get "credit" or calories burned when you do weight training? It doesn't show up when we input what we did. Thanks for the help.

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  • 5stringjeff
    5stringjeff Posts: 790 Member
    Look under cardio exercises for "Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)."
  • bostonwolf
    bostonwolf Posts: 3,038 Member
    Julia, the reason they don't give calorie credit is that it's difficult to standardize it. With cardio you can say "the person is this big, they did this much, they probably burned this" and be close with a reasonable degree of error.

    That's much more difficult with weightlifting given how different we all are in terms of size, strength, muscle mass etc.

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