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Help Please with calories burned for exercise

Maureenreeder
Maureenreeder Posts: 4 Member
edited January 24 in Fitness and Exercise
I do Denise Austins "Shape your Female Fat Zones" video (about 45 min) and I can not find what to call it in strength training! It is not cardio, but uses weights, squats, abs, etc. I want to add it to my diary but no luck because I don't know what to call it!!

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  • vorgas
    vorgas Posts: 741 Member
    Strength exercises are for actual weight lifting. It's used to keep track of where you are, or maybe let others know what you did. It doesn't actually have a calorie burn associated with it.

    What you actually did was much more along the lines of circuit training. You can find that in the cardio section. Counter-intuitive I know.
  • DedeeMarie
    DedeeMarie Posts: 54 Member
    Or if you where a heart rate monitor you can create it under Cardiovascular and just name the workout dvd and add your personalized calories burned. Do you have a HRM?
  • meggiemoo217
    meggiemoo217 Posts: 24 Member
    I posted a similar question last week about a different DVD I was doin. Some1 very kindly told me about an app u can get called count calories burned. It's really good and has DVD routines already stored in its memory so u jus have to add ur weight and height n it tells u how much u wud of burned. Hope this helps
  • Maureenreeder
    Maureenreeder Posts: 4 Member
    I like that I can eat a little more when I burn a little more. Thank you for all the great ideas and feedback. I don't have a heart rate monitor but I may try one.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    I log that sort of thing as 'strength training' under cardio.
    If it is weights but involves fast circuits and some aerobic movement, I log it as 'circuit training', also under cardio.
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