No calories burned during strength training!?!

coquitomamita
coquitomamita Posts: 3
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
How come myfitnesspal won't count strength training as calories burned? Does anyone have an alternate way to adjust for that? I think I may have to get a calorie/heart rate monitor to get this info. I just think its weird, since you are definitely breaking a sweat with moderate training. Any advice?

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  • Shweedog
    Shweedog Posts: 883 Member
    Type strength training into the cardio tracker. It comes up. You log those calories there. The strength training tracker is just to monitor how often you are doing just that, strength training.
  • MTGirl
    MTGirl Posts: 1,490 Member
    Log it as strength training under the cardio section and you'll be good to go.
  • monylove311
    monylove311 Posts: 251 Member
    it doesn't count strength training calories? how did i miss that? weird.


    * nevermind, I do that. : )
  • meggonkgonk
    meggonkgonk Posts: 2,066 Member
    Log it under cardio. The strength tracker is for sets and reps etc. Also strength workouts are harder to est cal burn for because the calorie burn doesn't come from your heartrate (a major part of the estimation for cardio workouts)- it comes from a more long term burn of building and maintaining muscle.
  • hnsaunde
    hnsaunde Posts: 757 Member
    If you search "Strength training" under cardiovascular activities, MFP does have an activity for it under that section, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. As far as I can tell, the actual Strength training activity section is meant to track how much you're doing, but not the calories burned. A HRM would track it the most accurately.
  • hnsaunde
    hnsaunde Posts: 757 Member
    If you search "Strength training" under cardiovascular activities, MFP does have an activity for it under that section, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. As far as I can tell, the actual Strength training activity section is meant to track how much you're doing, but not the calories burned. A HRM would track it the most accurately.
  • coquitomamita
    coquitomamita Posts: 3
    Thank you everyone!!!
  • jodimitchell
    jodimitchell Posts: 86 Member
    Log it under cardio. The strength tracker is for sets and reps etc. Also strength workouts are harder to est cal burn for because the calorie burn doesn't come from your heartrate (a major part of the estimation for cardio workouts)- it comes from a more long term burn of building and maintaining muscle.

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