strength exercises - don't burn calories ???

Under Cardiovascular is "Strength Training". You can plug in the time spent and it will figure your calories burned. However, I don't always trust it so I calculate my strength training from a different site and plug in those numbers.

I use strength training in the cardio sections and it shows calories. But all of these calorie burning estimates are WAY OVER real so I ignore them. I eat my calories then add the exercise as a log for myself at the end of the day when I am done eating and ignore the calories it gives.

It worked for me and I built a lot of muscle doing it. The proof is in the pudding.

I track my heart rate with amonitor during strength training. Then plug the average rate, with time into a calorie burned model (from livestrong.com) to estimate calories burned. Whatever I get, I always reduce by another 10-20%. I also list the individual exrcises/weights for record keeping. It seems to work well this way.

Unfortunately the cardio entry for strength training is so ambiguous it's hard to say how it's calculated. I'm sure its more accurate for someone doing high volume compounds with low rest periods versus someone doing bicep curls with a 5 lb dumbbell.

For the strength exercises it really is your best guesst-e-mate,
as for strength training not burning cals,
u have an after burn with strength training - that is to say, your body uses cals to repair and grow bigger muscles,
strength training has indeed a very important role to play in weight loss,
and more importantly, its not all about losing cals but the body your left with later,
do u really just want a thinner, skinner version of yourself,
your doing the work, you might as well set your goal a bit higher and get the body u always wanted,
go lift some weights,
it is actually fun,,,,,

i would invest in a decent heart rate monitor watch.....i got mine at walmart for $50.....it tells how many minutes and how many calories burned.....i used it whenever i do my workouts or walk quickly somewhere for a long period of time....it's working really well.....i did 50 minutes today of p90x legs and back workout which was mostly strength training and a little bit of cardio and my HR monitor said 575 calories burned.....i just plug that into here under karate, judo etc...put in the minutes and alter what MFP comes up with.....i trust the monitor more than what's on here....:)

Bolded, for ???? decent heartrate for under £35 I don't think so. Try getting a polar FT60, that's about $100 more, and will be $100 better value.
What is up with people!!, willing to spend $50 a month on a protein drink, which by the way is not as good for them as a PB&J sandwich, but not willing to shell out on a decent sports watch.

This might be a set up question... when I enter my exercises for the day in the daily log, specifically 'strength exercises' they do not seem to show calorie burn. what am I doing wrong ?

I would fill all the fields: the type of exercise, the number of sets and reps + the average weight... this does not show calories burned. On the other hand if I enter the 'cardio exercise' it does show calories burned.

what am i doing wrong ?

You cant simply measure the calories burned in strength training, because different people, train differently (intensity, duration, sets, reps, etc) whereas in doing cardio, especially when doing cardio on a machine, there are specific settings there that tells you how much you burn when you do an exercise on a certain speed, time, incline etc. everything is pre determined. I mean it's like people already established acceptable estimated values of the caloric expenditure of a person given his/her height, age, weight etc. when doing a specific cardiovascular activity based on the speed, time, %incline, intensity or what not.. Something like that. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

FT60, that's about $100 more

about $167 Australian on Ebay,
Hate the big price difference