Do you log calorie burn for weight lifting?

Misiaxcore
Misiaxcore Posts: 659 Member
edited October 6 in Fitness and Exercise
Just curious.

If you do, do you pause your HRM between your sets or whatever ? I'm fairly new to this. I used to lift in high school with my swim team, but obviously we didn't track our burn lol.

I used my HRM for my first session last week. Said I burned 14 calories in 8 minutes lmao. The second time I didn't even bother. I did plenty of cardio that day and wanted to have a cheat day so it didn't matter to me all that much.

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  • Misiaxcore
    Misiaxcore Posts: 659 Member
    :tongue:
  • anitam1987
    anitam1987 Posts: 38 Member
    I'd be interested to hear opinions! I have no clue, sorry ;)
  • Classalete
    Classalete Posts: 464 Member
    I use mine when I lift weights...It helps me ensure that I don't slack off for too long in-between sets. Lifting heavy makes it fairly easy to keep that heart rate above a constant 110 for the entire 1.5-2 hours I'm there.
  • Scorpioangel
    Scorpioangel Posts: 951 Member
    Yes I do and I keep it on the whole time (the heart rate monitor) :)
  • pbaker8307
    pbaker8307 Posts: 60 Member
    I do about 20 minutes of cardio...then I do weights...legs and arms on alternate days....then I do abs...I keep my HRM on the entire time.
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    I do log my calorie burn for weight lifting.. but I don't use my HRM calorie burn since they are not made for that type of activity.

    I just mainly use my HRM to make sure my heart rate isn't too high and to track my rests and what not.... and let the computer program tell me how many calories I burned.
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    HRM don't work for weight lifting. People get confused and think a high heart rate is what burns calories and it's not. It's the activity that burns it. So cardio burns 300 calories in 30minutes, but weight training only burns 100 (or so) even though your average heart rate is the same.

    I just log my strength training as the value MFP gives me under the cardio database. However, since I'm bulking, I manually raise my goal by 300 calories on the days I lift.
  • ShannonMpls
    ShannonMpls Posts: 1,936 Member
    I do, but I know it's not as accurate as my HRM for steady-state cardio. But also, my weight lifting is circuit training. I rarely break between sets, and move from one exercise to another quickly. I also do a lot of body weight exercises, and walking lunges with a press or step-ups down into a lunge while holding weights = cardio in my book ;)
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