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Adding exercise calories

mrunner2
mrunner2 Posts: 15 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
My strength workout at the gym is not typical. Using medicine balls, boat rope, sled weights and such I cannot enter info manually. How do you enter calories burned from HR monitor in the app? I cannot figure it out. Thanks.

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  • carlamarie1979
    carlamarie1979 Posts: 24 Member
    Not really much advice but when I weight train or do any training i wear a garmin heart rate monitor and watch to track how many calories i am burning coz like your self I was wondering the same thing, but problem now solved and it's the best thing I've bought for tracking activity
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Be aware that heart rate monitors are designed for steady state cardio. What this means is your calorie burns are (at best) a wild guesstimate.

    In MFP to get a different wild guesstimate......you can use a general category under cardiovascular....strength training, circuit training, yoga....I know you're not doing yoga but at least the calorie estimate is pretty conservative.
  • mrunner2
    mrunner2 Posts: 15 Member
    I thought there used to be a place to just put your calories burned? Maybe it is not on the app. I used to do it for cardio.
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