Strength Training and the excercise log

A_Shannigans
A_Shannigans Posts: 170 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
anyone know how to determine calories burned during strength training?

I noticed when I log strength training exercise it doesn't give me calories burned like it does with the aerobic exercises.

I'm doing a little of both because I have lost some muscle as well as gained fat.

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  • kbd388
    kbd388 Posts: 125 Member
    I'm curious about this too. Currently I don't log calories for strength training
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I would say that there isn't any set amount that a given person might burn because a lot of factors come into play in strength training. The best bet would be to get an electronic monitor that would give you a measurement.
  • NoxDineen
    NoxDineen Posts: 497 Member
    It's not much for pure strength.
  • A_Shannigans
    A_Shannigans Posts: 170 Member
    I would say that there isn't any set amount that a given person might burn because a lot of factors come into play in strength training. The best bet would be to get an electronic monitor that would give you a measurement.

    That sounds like a good idea thanks for the suggestion
  • NoxDineen
    NoxDineen Posts: 497 Member
    Using a HRM during strength training won't be accurate since your body isn't consuming oxygen at the rate a HRM assumes. MFP's lowish estimates are in the correct ballpark.

    The calorie burn you get from strength isn't during the workout, it's increasing your muscle mass and thus passive calorie burn overall.

    A casual use of the search feature will bring you several threads on this exact question.
  • mcrowe1016
    mcrowe1016 Posts: 647 Member
    Using a HRM during strength training won't be accurate since your body isn't consuming oxygen at the rate a HRM assumes. MFP's lowish estimates are in the correct ballpark.

    The calorie burn you get from strength isn't during the workout, it's increasing your muscle mass and thus passive calorie burn overall.

    A casual use of the search feature will bring you several threads on this exact question.

    Agree...there is a strength training option under cardio that gives a modest estimate that you can use, but there is no way to know for sure.
  • kaervaak
    kaervaak Posts: 274 Member
    Logging strength workouts is very hard because most of the calories you burn are after your workout in the "afterburn" phase when your body is repairing your muscles. I don't bother logging my strength training and instead just assume that it increases my TDEE everyday. The only real way to calculate how much it changes your TDEE is to track your food and weight for a while and calculate it from that data.

    When I switched from doing mostly cardio to mostly weightlifting, my TDEE went up by almost 500 calories.
  • A_Shannigans
    A_Shannigans Posts: 170 Member
    I would say that there isn't any set amount that a given person might burn because a lot of factors come into play in strength training. The best bet would be to get an electronic monitor that would give you a measurement.

    That sounds like a good idea thanks for the suggestion

    Thanks for the tip I'll try that.

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