Strength Training

rpompeo17
rpompeo17 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
When choosing strength training, why does my fitness pal not show the calories burned?

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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    Because it's hard to calculate the calorie burn due to many factors and the burn isn't worth counting anyways... it's pretty small.
  • Cchioles
    Cchioles Posts: 276 Member
    It's A Misconception That Strength Training Does Not Burn Calories As Much As Cardio.. If You Train Moderately to Heavy And Minimize Your Rest Intervals, You'll Be Surprised By The Amount Of Calories You Can Burn..
  • XavierNusum
    XavierNusum Posts: 720 Member
    It burns comparative calories, but they are hard to estimate using the calculations like steady-state cardio.
  • Timorous_Beastie
    Timorous_Beastie Posts: 595 Member
    The strength training section where you enter how many pounds, reps and sets is just to keep track of your progress. To get calories burned - and understand it's just an estimate - search for the strength training entry in the cardio section.
  • hcdo
    hcdo Posts: 201 Member
    Timorous_Beastie wrote: »
    The strength training section where you enter how many pounds, reps and sets is just to keep track of your progress. To get calories burned - and understand it's just an estimate - search for the strength training entry in the cardio section.

    I actually tried doing that but it still said I burned zero calories. It's not unless I put some ridiculous time (like 100 minutes) that it gives me any calorie burn. :( I'm assuming I burn some calories, but I'd love to see some actual numbers, even if they are just estimates. I kind of sabotage myself by then thinking I'm only burning calories if I'm doing cardio.
  • KristyKing359
    KristyKing359 Posts: 4 Member
    I do Crossfit and I entered the exercises we did and I still don't get credit even though the average burn is about 300 calories a workout.
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    edited July 2015
    MFP always gives me a calorie burn when I enter strength training into the Cardiovascular section, it's just far too many calories for what I'm doing. The problem with entries like that is the MFP has no idea how much time of the 60 minutes I enter for lifting that I'm really resting and how much I'm actually lifting and how hard I'm working. I usually give myself 90 calories for a one hour session.
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    Cchioles wrote: »
    It's A Misconception That Strength Training Does Not Burn Calories As Much As Cardio.. If You Train Moderately to Heavy And Minimize Your Rest Intervals, You'll Be Surprised By The Amount Of Calories You Can Burn..


    I agree with this. add to that the fact that your going to burn more calories recovering from the workout then you would a typical cardio workout and its a decent calorie burn
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    KristyKing359 wrote: »
    I do Crossfit and I entered the exercises we did and I still don't get credit even though the average burn is about 300 calories a workout.

    how long are those average workouts?
  • farfromthetree
    farfromthetree Posts: 982 Member
    No_Finish_Line wrote: »
    KristyKing359 wrote: »
    I do Crossfit and I entered the exercises we did and I still don't get credit even though the average burn is about 300 calories a workout.

    how long are those average workouts?

    I do Crossfit also and allow myself 200 extra calories the days I go. My classes are an hour long with there being a 10 minute warm up, a 30 minute strength training session followed by the HIIT portion being anywhere from 8-20 minutes long.
    @KristyKing359 are your classes about the same??

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