logging exercise, finding logged exercise

If you're doing strength training and logging under that heading in MFP, it doesn't add estimated calories. The strength training section is just to keep track of reps/sets.

Log your exercise in the cardiovascular heading in MFP to get calories for it, using the whole time of your strength workout and a "strength training" exercise entry you'll find there.

Strength training doesn't burn a lot of calories, but it's definitely worth doing regardless.

72etsisk wrote: »

Thanks - I don't need the calories logged, but I do want to have a record of what I've done and when I did it - I just don't see where to access that logged exercise info. I'm on the android app... Any ideas? Thanks again, for the help.

When you click "add exercise" (from the main screen, the plus sign, then the barbell), you should see a box that says "Exercises" in bold at the top, then "Cardiovascular" and "Strength" underneath.

Click on "Cardiovascular". In the "Search for an Exercise" box at the top, type "strength" and the search button (magnifying glass).

You should see an entry titled "Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)". Click on that.

Click on the number to the right of "Minutes peformed". Type in how many clock-minutes you did strength training (the calculations behind the scenes assume normal inter-set rests periods), hit the check mark. It already knows your bodyweight and such from your profile, and uses that it exercise calculations if/as needed. (They're still estimates, of course.)

(I'm saying this with my Android app open in my lap as I type on my laptop, so this should be pretty close.)

72etsisk wrote: »

great, but after I've entered that, where do I go to see that workout or past workouts? It's like it goes into a black hole or something!

It should be should be showing up on your food diary page (Exercise heading, near the bottom), and affecting your net calories for the day and on the Nutrition page/Calories tab.

If you go to the web app, there's a Reports tab, where you can get reports of exercise minutes or calories for the past 7/30/90 days. You can also export stuff from the web app.

There may be other places, but those are the ones I can think of, off the top of my head.

72etsisk wrote: »

ok, got it figured out - simple, of course, darn it. It was because I was keeping the tablet in landscape. When I held it vertically, all the missing fields showed up. Why they wouldn't show up in landscape mode is a question for the designers, I guess.

thanks!

Intentionally different display in landscape - shows all your nutrient columns and totals for food. Portrait has simplified food data, but all the sections.

Sorry - I knew the display was different, but that possibility never occurred to me as an explanation. :flowerforyou: