Cals burned during wieght lifting

truckguy101
truckguy101 Posts: 9
edited November 13 in Health and Weight Loss
How many cals would a guy burn In one hour of wieght lifting ? I have not been taking lifting into acount for 2 years ! Wondering what others do ?

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  • triciab79
    triciab79 Posts: 1,713 Member
    I am watching this one. I have no idea but I would like to at least have an estimate too.
  • bakesb73
    bakesb73 Posts: 81 Member
    If you have the money try out a Fitbit or jawbone or body media. It will give you how many calories you burn.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    I do 25 calories for every 15 minutes of lifting. I am cutting right now.
  • joneallen
    joneallen Posts: 217 Member
    truckguy101 wrote: »
    How many cals would a guy burn In one hour of wieght lifting ? I have not been taking lifting into acount for 2 years ! Wondering what others do ?
    Its all going to depend on intensity, rest between sets, rep range and how heavy the weight is (in relation to what's heavy for you). I also seem to burn more on leg days opposed to upper body.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    joneallen wrote: »
    truckguy101 wrote: »
    How many cals would a guy burn In one hour of wieght lifting ? I have not been taking lifting into acount for 2 years ! Wondering what others do ?
    Its all going to depend on intensity, rest between sets, rep range and how heavy the weight is (in relation to what's heavy for you). I also seem to burn more on leg days opposed to upper body.

    This^^

    When I log a 50-ish minute weight lifting session, MFP guesstimates it at 180 calories. I usually treat it as about 75-100 calories and it seems to be working for me.
  • joneallen
    joneallen Posts: 217 Member
    Yikes! According to my Polar HRM, I can smoke 600+ calories in an hour lifting weights.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited February 2015
    joneallen wrote: »
    Yikes! According to my Polar HRM, I can smoke 600+ calories in an hour lifting weights.

    Yeah

    It's monitoring your heart rate and applying an algorithm that is based on steady state cardio...you need to cut that down significantly because it's not true
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I probably cut my HRM calories in half for the weights section of my workout...that may still be too much but it evens out
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Unlike running or other steady state cardio, it's pretty hard to determine because there are about a million variables. I use the TDEE method and account for it by looking at my overall activity and other exercises performed during the week in conjunction to my lifting and determined that overall I am moderately active on most TDEE calculators.

    That has worked pretty well for me...adjusted for real world results, my calories are slightly more than moderately active but not as much as active or very active.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    The only correct answer is: nobody knows. You could go get a physics textbook and a calculator and calculate the amount of work done and the amount of energy needed to do that work, but even that would only be an estimation because that's just the amount of energy needed to lift the weights, not taking into account that our bodies are not perfectly efficient, the damage done to our muscles needing a few extra calories to repair the next 1-2 days and stuff like bad form possibly making it easier to lift through swinging, bouncing or whatever, etc., etc.

    In short, I'd just keep ignoring it and taking the numbers from my weight change to adjust my calorie intake instead.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    bakesb73 wrote: »
    If you have the money try out a Fitbit or jawbone or body media. It will give you how many calories you burn.

    Nope, not accurate for weight training.

  • karlieligarcia06
    karlieligarcia06 Posts: 1
    Hello
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