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Strength training and burned calories

jvball21
jvball21 Posts: 33
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi, can anyone tell me why calories burned don't show up under activities for strength training like they do for cardio? Why can't I enter calories burned manually like you can when you do cardio activties? I'm new to this site. I've just started about a week ago and maybe I'm just missing something? Thanks.

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  • jvball21
    jvball21 Posts: 33
    Hi, can anyone tell me why calories burned don't show up under activities for strength training like they do for cardio? Why can't I enter calories burned manually like you can when you do cardio activties? I'm new to this site. I've just started about a week ago and maybe I'm just missing something? Thanks.
  • jreeves1
    jreeves1 Posts: 51
    I can't figure out how to either. I just add Strength Training to the cardio part & put 60 mins.
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    Yep, just add a cardio exercise and call it what you are doing, then add the appropriate calories to it.
  • vramage
    vramage Posts: 28
    what if u dont know exact how many cals you are burning tho?? i still just keep them separted it gives me a bost if there isnt much in eather of them makes me do more etc
  • jvball21
    jvball21 Posts: 33
    Ok, so I'll just put it in as cardio then. I did that at first, but I was trying to keep the 2 separate. Thanks for the replies everyone.
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