Add calories burned during weight sessions

603reader wrote: »

Ishii19 wrote: »

Um I actually think you can burn a lot of calories lifting, rabbitjb . OP - there is probably a more accurate way to measure your burn, but one option is to log your lifting under the cardiovascular section as "calisthenics" - that will estimate calories just like it will for walking or biking or whatever. Think of the strength section as just a way to keep track of weight lifted and reps/sets done as that section will not add any calorie burn.

No you really don't burn that much.

HRMs are for steady state cardio and won't be accurate for lifting and going by the MFP database is pretty off-base from my experience

Compared to what? You really don't burn that much doing 30 minutes of steady state power walking either.

To the OP, just find the low end of what you would burn for a specific amount of time for someone your size and use that. It takes a lot of energy to lift heavy things. Also Compound movements burn more than isolation exercises.

There is also some rough calculations you can use. I always take whatever number I get and divide it in half
(METs x 3.5 x weight in kilograms ÷ 200) x duration in minutes = calories burned.

For example when I squat I am lifting at least twice my body weight. I do 2 warm up sets and then 5 sets of 5. I don't even count the warm ups but my calories burned is about 210.

After squats its two to three more compound exercises. That would put my estimated calories in the gym for an hour around 300-600. I input 200 and leave it at that. I'd rather underestimate and not screw with weight loss goals too much. If its actually more than that then good for me, I seriously doubt its less than that.

britishbroccoli wrote: »

Eh, for every half hour of lifting, I log 25 calories burned. There's no way I can get exact enough to figure out the exact number of minutes I was lifting (vs resting between lifts), how much of an afterburn I'm getting, bleh bleh. Log your weight training however you'd like. If you eat back your calories and notice you're not losing as fast as you should, recalculate.

/thread.

can we all move on now?