Strength workouts

ekmanning50
ekmanning50 Posts: 21 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Tis morning I did 55 lunges, 100 crunches and 30 push ups (girly style). Why doesn't it count as any calories? Do you only get calories for cardio? Just wondering.

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  • mmddwechanged
    mmddwechanged Posts: 1,687 Member
    You could add calories if you want. Some people look up approximate numbers, some people wear a heart rate monitor while they work out.
  • ekmanning50
    ekmanning50 Posts: 21 Member
    Thanks. I guess I will let it count what it wants to count. I will try to do cardio later this evening, anyways, if I am not dead after working in my flowers pulling weeds. Lol
  • todayis4me
    todayis4me Posts: 184 Member
    You can log strength training under the cardio part and based on the time it will give you a calorie burn.......however from what I have gathered solely from other mfp members that is....is that it is very hard to determineactual calories burned from strength training. So if you eat back your calories you may want to find a more accurate measure.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    You can log Gardening under Cardio, I believe.

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