How to track strength training?

ash_depp666
ash_depp666 Posts: 13 Member
edited November 28 in Fitness and Exercise
Hello,

How do I track strength training exercises? I was doing kettle bell swings and decided to track it as dead lifts since that was already in the exercise dictionary. When I entered it, it doesn't show a calorie burned in my diary. Just a dash where the calories burned for that exercise should be.

What am I doing wrong?

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  • uconnwinsnc1
    uconnwinsnc1 Posts: 902 Member
    Tracking weight lifting is sort of difficult. Your best bet is to use a heart rate monitor or to just not count weight lifting towards caloric burn.
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    MFP doesn't give you calories burned when you enter individual strength exercises. Search for strength training under cardio exercises if you want it to give you a calorie burn. As for actually knowing how many calories you're burning, I don't know what to tell you! I use MFP's estimate, and I eat back all my exercise calories. I have my goal set at maintenance, and I maintain based on the number they tell me I burn. So it seems accurate for me.
  • zenmonkey760
    zenmonkey760 Posts: 4 Member
    Heart rate monitor is the best way to go. Polar has a Bluetooth heart rate monitor chest strap transmitter. Just wear it and use an app like Endomondo to track your calories burned. That syncs with myfitnesspal.
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    It only adds caloric burn for cardio exercises. You can (a) consider it negligible, which it may or may not be for you (b) use the cardio exercise "strength training" to track it. I use the latter and only eat back about half my calories because it's a pretty high overestimate.

    A heart rate monitor won't be a helpful tool because they are used to measure steady state cardio, which weight lifting is not.
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    I honestly googled "how much does a 30-year-old 150 pound woman burn while weight lifting" and I use that number.
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