When weight training calorie question.

FitnessFreaky
FitnessFreaky Posts: 15
edited September 27 in Health and Weight Loss
Now obviously I can enter the amount of calories I burn when I do cardio and thats great but when I enter my strength training exercises for the day and what I did it doesnt give me a calorie burn guesstimate. So when all is said and done I only earned for that day what I entered for cardio.

How do I figure how much I burn with my weight lifting?

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  • makeachange22
    makeachange22 Posts: 151
    go to cardiovascular section, and type strength training then it counts your calories
  • pamwoods
    pamwoods Posts: 1
    There is a weight training category under cardio. I don't think it's really very accurate as far as calories burned for weight training but at least you get some credit for what you've done. Hope that helps.
  • ladyhawk00
    ladyhawk00 Posts: 2,457 Member
    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.
  • FitnessFreaky
    FitnessFreaky Posts: 15
    go to cardiovascular section, and type strength training then it counts your calories

    Thank you! Im assuming the count is if anything the lowest possible for minutes entered so thats perfect.

    Thanks all!
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