Weight lifting calories

JDrews84
JDrews84 Posts: 9 Member
edited November 17 in Fitness and Exercise
This app only calculates calories burned for cardio, curious if anyone can ballpark calories burned from what I did today. Just don't want to under-eat.

Squat 5x5 200lbs
Overhead Press 5x5 130lbs
Deadlift 1x5 255lbs

Thanks in advance!

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Search for strength training under cardio. It's not much, though.
  • akoivisto
    akoivisto Posts: 141 Member
    Lift all the calories!!

    Personally, been lifting for two years now, I don't track lifting calories. I did at first using what malibu927 stated, but the impact was minimal overall (35 min of Str Training was like 130c on a good day?)
  • californiagirl2012
    californiagirl2012 Posts: 2,625 Member
    I give it one calorie per minute, and then I only eat more or less according to what my body tells me I need. Over time I've found cardio makes me more hungry, weight lifting not so much. Experiment and see what your body tells you. If you gain fat obviously the "eat back" calories are too many.
  • JDrews84
    JDrews84 Posts: 9 Member
    I like the 1 calorie/minute idea, thanks for the swift responses everyone!
  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    JDrews84 wrote: »
    I like the 1 calorie/minute idea

    Your BMR (base metabolic rate) is probably higher than that. Heavy lifting like that could be 5+ calories/min when factoring in the afterburn. :+1:
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    JDrews84 wrote: »
    I like the 1 calorie/minute idea, thanks for the swift responses everyone!

    How many calories does "strength training" get you?
    I get 237 for an hour, not a lot (sadly!) but much more than 60.

    It's obviously a very rough estimate but it is based on your METS.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    You could convert the "work" involved in lifting the weight into food calories, but you would likely be disappointed. You might get 10 calories if you did that. There is a MET number for both light and heavy weight lifting, but using it will provide inaccurate results. The problem is that when it was calculated they had people lift as much weight as they could over the course of an hour. That's not what most people are doing when they lift weights for an hour. Lifting weights involves several sets with periods of rest. To be accurate, those periods of rest shouldn't be included in the total time.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    I just increase my activity level from sedentary to light active to account for the cals and spread out over the week.
  • Katiebear_81
    Katiebear_81 Posts: 719 Member
    I don't generally eat back my lifting calories, unless I'm extremely hungry or way under my protein macro for the day. My Fitbit says I burn around 300-450 calories for an hour's worth of lifting. Accurate? Probably not. Would I trust it? Probably not.
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    I only use 120 cals/hour as for weightlifting. I also use this number for my bodyweight "lifting" routine -- currently 50 pullups, 90 pushups and 75 dips.

    I time the sessions from start to end. I do not deduct rest time between sets for a specific lift (generally 2-3 mins) but I do deduct the time for rest between different lifts (usually 10 mins).

    My lifting sessions generally do not last longer than an hour or so and the net time is usually around 45-55 mins. So, I usually do not record more than 90-110 cals, which is pretty minimal and avoids the possibility of "eating back" more cals than I actually burned.
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