brand new to site and confused!

Chastjaks
Chastjaks Posts: 5 Member
edited January 23 in Fitness and Exercise
Hi-
Today is my first full day of using the site and I am confused about adding the exercises. I added the cardio and the weight training that I did but the site only gave me the calories burned from the cardio (which today was only a warm-up and cool-down). I used my heart rate monitor while lifting so I know I burned 600 calories. How do I add this in to change the amount of calories I'm able to consume today? I'm trying to be very efficient about calories in versus calories burned so this is confusing me. Please help!!!!!!

Thanks-

Chastity

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  • ahdrema
    ahdrema Posts: 1
    when you picked your exercise, it might have automatically populated "calories burned" based on the time you worked out, etc, however, you should be able to change it and manually add the calories you know you burned.
  • Laura6968
    Laura6968 Posts: 3 Member
    I'm having the same issue, I added all my leg exercises at the gym yesterday and my arm exercises today, and it's not giving me any calories burned for these strength training exercises. Only the cardio exercises
  • PixieAdele
    PixieAdele Posts: 102 Member
    Welcome to mfp!

    Strength training is an exercise also found in the cardio database, just search as you normally would. I never track using the strength training part, I think that's only to track your weights week to week like a diary.

    Alternatively when you go to add cardio you can go right to the bottom of the page and it says add calories if you know what you have burnt, or add your own exercise to the database, that's normally what I do. then it's tailored to me and its kept in "my exercises" tab so you can get to it quickly next time.

    Also, I've heard that hrm's are not as good at tracking cals burned for weight lifting as they are for steady cardio exercise so you might want to be careful saying you've burnt 600cals as it may not be accurate. The database version for strength training burns about 60cals per 25mins in my experience.

    Good luck! I hope this helps.
  • Chastjaks
    Chastjaks Posts: 5 Member
    Thanks all! Got it now! Appreciate the help.

    Chastity
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