strength training calories burned
moniquebravo1011
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Why do we not count calories burned from strength training?
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Because it barely burns anything. You can still log it under "cardio" and it will give you a calorie burn for it, but I wouldn't eat very much of it back. That's not to say that lifting isn't doing great things for your body, because it is!1
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Depends on what you're calling strength training. The MFP "Strength Training" entry is more for traditional weightlifting, which has short periods of lifting with significant periods of rest between sets. If your strength training is more high-rep, minimal rest with weights, it probably should be logged as "circuit training". If mostly bodyweight work with minimal rest, "calisthenics" is the most appropriate entry.2
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hassankarimi82 wrote: »
Dude you seem pretty ripped, surely you know lifting calories are minimal?0 -
I log mine and manually input the calorie burn from my HRM. It's usually not as much as cardio, but it's a good amount. I think there's a huge range of what people do as "strength training."0
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Because it is basically impossible to tell bow much someone burned from lifting based on time as the only variable being input. There are too many other things that play into the amount.
You don't burn a whole lot any way since a lot of the time is used for resting.0 -
You burn like 250 calories per hour at most0
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Because it is basically impossible to tell bow much someone burned from lifting based on time as the only variable being input. There are too many other things that play into the amount.
You don't burn a whole lot any way since a lot of the time is used for resting.
I'll agree with the first part, but if you are doing higher reps and keep your rest periods down, you can get a decent burn. It isn't as much a question of WHAT people call strength training but HOW they strength train.
More to do with how much weight you shift in your workout - so yes less rest periods and more weight lifted will increase the burn.
But calorie burns aren't the point of strength training.1 -
Depends on what you're calling strength training. The MFP "Strength Training" entry is more for traditional weightlifting, which has short periods of lifting with significant periods of rest between sets. If your strength training is more high-rep, minimal rest with weights, it probably should be logged as "circuit training". If mostly bodyweight work with minimal rest, "calisthenics" is the most appropriate entry.
I would do 10 exercises, 30sec on 10sec off and 8 reps for upper body using 2-10lbs. Im 5'9 and 208lbs0 -
hassankarimi82 wrote: »
Nope....not kidding. For the people on mfp who are relatively new to lifting (myself included), what we're doing isn't worth eating back. Ive been lifting heavy 3-4 times/wk for a year now and if I ate back what the app "awards" me my weight would start to skyrocket. I gave my reply based on who was asking, which is someone just starting out. But keep it going with those weights and you'll love what it does for you op.
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I would definitely agree with the above poster in calling what you are doing circuit training, OP.
Good luck!1 -
The one positive thing is that the after burn from lifting goes longer than with cardio. So your furnace is still toasting calories hours after your workout. I wouldn't be to concerned about the count because it varies with the manner in which you lift and from what I have learned from this forum you shouldn't eat back the calories your burn with exercise.
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If one needs to counter balance their food intake from strength training, log it under "cardio".. The calories burned from strength training is not considered steady state cardio exercising and does burn minimal calories.
Lifting 2 to 10 pounds would be more calisthenics with resting and still is only burning minimal calories, but if the OP needs to eat back these exercise calories why not just give your self 100 calories for 30 minutes.
The heavier you lift the more calories burned, but still there is no way to gauge calorie burns for lifting weights..0 -
double post.. thanks to mozilla..0
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Because it is basically impossible to tell bow much someone burned from lifting based on time as the only variable being input. There are too many other things that play into the amount.
You don't burn a whole lot any way since a lot of the time is used for resting.
I'll agree with the first part, but if you are doing higher reps and keep your rest periods down, you can get a decent burn. It isn't as much a question of WHAT people call strength training but HOW they strength train.
I'd consider that more circuit training than strength, but I see the point. I was speaking more in the traditional sense of strength training.2 -
I've recently started taking into account calories for lifting. I'm maintaining and want to make sure my TDEE is somewhat accurate. I use my Apple Watch to record it (I know it doesn't work well with lifting but it gives a low estimate). I usually get about 150 cal/hour of heavy lifting.
I think that's reasonable and helpful for long term TDEE calculation.0 -
@living48The one positive thing is that the after burn from lifting goes longer than with cardio. So your furnace is still toasting calories hours after your workout. I wouldn't be to concerned about the count because it varies with the manner in which you lift and from what I have learned from this forum you shouldn't eat back the calories your burn with exercise.
The EPOC effect is actually very small - small enough to be insignificant.
Not accounting for exercise calories may work for people that do little exercise or log their food inaccurately but otherwise it's foolish. Think ahead to when you get to goal weight, you will have to account for exercise then - so why not now?0
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