Are calories burned doing strength training?

Building muscle does burn fat, but I think it's hard to calculate how many calories are burned. Calories burned is calculated by your heart rate, so if you would like to know how many calories you burn doing strength workouts you can buy a heart rate monitor. I just purchased one so have as accurate calculations of calories burned as possible.

I do a class called Body Pump which is a choreographed strength training. I wear my HRM and record my calories burned. I have also done some circuit classes in the fitness center and my HRM is also elevated there. If you are doing low weights and not very many reps you probably aren't elevating your HR to have a significant calorie burn.

BUT the big advantage is that st helps develop your muscles so you will burn more fat and less lean tissue on a calorie restricted diet and lean tissue/muscle burns more calories at rest than fat does. You really can't go wrong with strength training!

we have a body pump class in our gym too.....i it

If you wear a heart rate monitor, you see how many calories you burn and enter them yourself under cardio. Or you can use the MFP estimates.

From http://www.myfitnesspal.com/faq

Q. Doesn't strength training burn calories? Why don't you show any calories burned for strength training?

A. Estimating the calories burned from strength training is very difficult because it depends on a variety of factors: how much weight you lifted per repetition, how vigorously you performed that exercise, how much rest you took between sets, etc. Because of this, we do not automatically calculate how many calories you burned from strength training exercises.

However, if you'd like, you can add "Strength training" as a cardio exercise to get a rough estimate of how many calories you burned. Please be aware though that this is definitely a rough estimate and can be fairly inaccurate.

There is a category for "srtrength training (weight lifting, weight training)" under cardio, I didn't notice it till recently!

Just FYI: if you do weights AFTER cardio your heart rate will already be up and you will burn more during weight training than you would otherwise

Not necessarily. If you've 'exhausted' your muscles by doing cardio first, not only will you have a less effective lifting session, it could actually be more dangerous. When your muscles are already fatigued from running/elliptical/cycling/whatever they're less stable and focused when you ask them to take on a load with repetition and because you're already tired you're going to be less focused on good form. Plus, there's always a chance of dropping something and really hurting yourself. (Not that there's not always that chance anyway, but you're increasing the odds of a boo boo when you do something hard after tiring yourself out first.)

Always lift first and then do your cardio if you're going to do the two immediately back to back. It will increase your endurance and you're less prone to serious injury if you do them in that order. If you're going to leave a decent gap (couple hours or more) between types of exercise, then do them in whichever order you like. But for back to back its safer and more effective to do weights first

You can log in "strength training" under "cardio." At my weight, it says I'm burning about 4 calories a minute....

lol! i had to ask how to do the quote box (it is there too!)