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Question about extra calories and weight training

VonnieKicks97
VonnieKicks97 Posts: 11 Member
edited January 22 in Health and Weight Loss
I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but why is it when I track any of my strength training on this site it does not give you additional calories? Don't you burn more when doing this?

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  • Angie52732
    Angie52732 Posts: 66 Member
    From what I have seen you have to enter the strength training under cardio for it to register the estimated calories burned. I also enter what I did under the strength training just so I could log my weights and reps.

    Angie
  • herblackwings39
    herblackwings39 Posts: 3,930 Member
    I think it's harder to get a proper estimate with strength training. I just log it so I can keep track of the weights/reps involved and only count the extra calories burned with cardio.
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