I use the myfitnesspal entry "strength training" under cardio. This entry says heavy lifting, but 'm thinking it may be more accurate for super-setting or circuits. It says I burn about 300 calories an hour (which would be about the same as walking an hour). This sounds about right given the intensity of the lifting, but, just to be safe and not over estimate I only count 1/2 my time lifting since I figure I spend about 1/2 my time (or more) resting between sets. My workout usualy takes 60 - 75 minutes and I log 30-45 minutes depending on intensity. Usualy comes out to about 150 calories that I end up eating back and that is all in my post workout protein shake anyway. I am also currently burning about 500 calories runnning 3 miles after each workout, and I log all of that and usualy end up eating a good bit of it back too.

Mine takes 20. I guess they get longer as you load up and increase break time.

How do you all take so long to do 5X5? Mine takes me about 30 minutes, 35 max.

Once it starts to get really heavy your body needs the time to recover. Week 14 for me now and it's taking me 75 -90 mins with warm ups to finish. First month or so I was in and out in 20

makes sense. I didn't realize you all were so far along. I am on week 5.

Yeah, my usual routine is to get to the gym, start with shoulder delocators to get my shoulders stretched out and some hip stretches then start doing my warm up sets on the squat. Im about 15 minutes in by the time I start my first work set on squats. I usualy rest about 3 minutes between sets on squats. From squats I go straight into my warm ups for the next exercise, whether OHP or bench. I usualy rest about 3 minutes between sets on both, unless I had a stall the last time I attempted the weight, then I will take up to 5 minutes between sets to try and overcome the stall. On A days I go straight from bench to rows without any warm up sets since I'm already pretty well warmed up from benching. On B days I start my dead lift warmups at 135 and will progress about 50lbs at a time to my work weight. I usualy rest a few minutes between my last warm up set and my work set on dead lifts. After I do my work set on deads I like to rest about 4-5 minutes and then pull a single at 50lbs over the work weight. Not part of the program, but it makes me feel like I'm making more progress to pull something really heavy. I'm usualy done with my last lift after about an hour and then I will drink my shake and hit the rest room before I change my shoes and get on the tread mill. Some days have taken aas long as 90 minutes since all my neighbors go the same gym and I get to talking somedays, or if I am fighting stalls and taking longer rests on more them one exercise. Usualy by the time I get my shoes on and BS for a minute or two with other people at the gym im about 1:20 in and then I do a 31 minute run (5K @6mph). By the time I'm off the treadmill and pack up my crap I get out of the gym in a little under 2 hrs after getting there. I'm almost always out of there in under 2 hrs after running. 2 hrs a day 3 days a week may seem like a lot, but if I wasnt at the gym I would just be watching tv or doing something else unproductive, so I dont really get any less done by going to the gym during that time.

I wear my HRM while I do my routine. I'm in week 3.

The deadlift really, really raises the HR. So days where you do the deadlift uses more calories. Today for instance it said 230 cals for 23 minutes.

On other days (bench press), it's around 220 cals for 30 minutes.

From what i have read, HRM are nearly worthless for strength training

^^ This.

Unfortunately HRM only work for steady state leg dominant cardio, but for weight lifting or intervals (tabatta, HIIT) the HRM doesn't work because you are getting your heart rate up, but then ceasing to do work while your heart rate remains hight. Heart rate only correlates with calories burned if you are doing steady state cardio, and even then it is only an estimate, because everyones metabolic rate is diffferent.

I wrote out a long post but wasn't satisfied with the explanation... just google HRM and weight lifting and you can decide what works best for your situation :-)

I recommend not logging the calories from lifting at all. If your weight starts changes faster or slower than you want, adjust your total calorie goal accordingly.

My Bodymedia band indicates around 330 calories for Squat/Bench/Row and 350 for Squat/OHP/Deadlift (week 10). YMMV