I have a question...

petee5854
petee5854 Posts: 36 Member
edited November 9 in Health and Weight Loss
Does anyone out there know how I can add the calories burned to my daily diary from an upper body workout with dumbbells? I want it to include the calories burned with my walking routine daily AND upper body workout against my food intake...Thanks

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  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    enter "strength training" in the cardio section of the exercise logging section.

    That said it is not a lot of calories and the benefit of strength training is not the burned cals.

    Why don't you want to add your lower body workout? If you don't work legs as well as upper body, I would advise you to start and to find a beginner program, don't try and make your own up if you are not an expert.
  • Amattaway1
    Amattaway1 Posts: 9 Member
    add exercise --> cardiovascular --> strength training (or circuit training, if that's more what you do)

    I wouldn't eat back many of these calories, though, because the only way to really know is to wear a HRM.
  • petee5854
    petee5854 Posts: 36 Member
    erickirb wrote: »
    enter "strength training" in the cardio section of the exercise logging section.

    That said it is not a lot of calories and the benefit of strength training is not the burned cals.

    Why don't you want to add your lower body workout? If you don't work legs as well as upper body, I would advise you to start and to find a beginner program, don't try and make your own up if you are not an expert.

  • petee5854
    petee5854 Posts: 36 Member
    Thanks for your reply... I have been doing a walk routine for nearly a year now...walking 2.2 miles/day now with about half of that walk with inclines. I feel I am getting a good lower body workout but felt I needed to combine it with an upper body workout to tone and burn calories, too. I've lost about 20 lbs so far want to lose another 20 and thought by toning muscles in my upper body I'd be burning calories faster as well...is that the right thinking?
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