Eating back workout calories

mdandres
mdandres Posts: 15
in Fitness and Exercise
I'm trying to lose 2 lbs a week and realized a good way to maintain satiety is to eat back my workout calories and thus, I've been eating back my cardio calories. However, I noticed that when you input lifting counts, there is no caloric value. How many calories does a lifting session burn? ( I usually fit in 9 sets of 15 reps in 30 minutes give or take) Should I even eat back these calories?

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  • mdandres
    mdandres Posts: 15
    bump
  • ghimm
    ghimm Posts: 38 Member
    Try wearing a heart rate monitor and then you can input how many calories you've burned. You can add it under cardio, just for your own benefit, even if it isn't actually cardio.
  • crimsoncat
    crimsoncat Posts: 457 Member
    I was confused by the strength training thing too. If you go into the cardio log and search "strength training" that will allow you to log the calories from it. The strength log appears to just be a record so you know what weights you used last time.
  • mdandres
    mdandres Posts: 15
    I was confused by the strength training thing too. If you go into the cardio log and search "strength training" that will allow you to log the calories from it. The strength log appears to just be a record so you know what weights you used last time.

    mm, I see. Well I don't wanna be keeping track of how long I lift per set and how long my breaks between sets are so maybe I'll just continue not logging anything for strength training.

    Thanks for the replies

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