Does strength training burn no calories??

If you go to the cardio database and scroll down you'l see strength training click it and I think it registers calories burned

like above,.... but ... you dont burn that many in comparison to cardio at all during strength training. but... muscle burns fat, so you should do it for sure!

like above,.... but ... you dont burn that many in comparison to cardio at all during strength training. but... muscle burns fat, so you should do it for sure!

Strength training continues to burn calories hours after you are done. Cardio does not.

If you lift correctly you actually burn a lot of calories -- cardio is not your only friend

My heart rate gets just as high repping weights as jogging on a treadmill. To say it doesn't burn as many calories is a myth

Why don't we get any credit for calories burned during strength training? Does it really burn no calories to do crunches or push ups?

You need to log your strength training as cardio to get exercise calories added to your daily diary if you want to use them for consumption. As others have stated, weight lifting burns a good amount of calories, and tends to keep on burning up to 48 hours after the session. Best advice I can give is to get yourself a good heart rate monitor that is configurable for your body, and have it calculate your calories that you are burning in a given weight session.

Greg

wow learn sumthing new everyday...i never wanted to do strength training b/c i figured id jus been making my fat toned and i want to lose not get hard fat lol

Sounds crazy...and i didnt kno it continues to burn even afterward.....

I know strength training burns calories but I was wondering the same thing as to why no credit was being issued.

Log the session as cardio - you'll see the calories added in your diary in MFP.

Greg

Depending on the person ... you can burn just as many calories weight training as cardio. I do and I track it by wearing a heart rate monitor. For me, I just log the exercise or work out routine under cardio by name and put my calories burned in from my heart rate monitor.

The reason that strength training doesn't 'count' here is because there is no way to accurately judge. I may be lifting 10 to 20 pound dumbells while you may be lifting 45 - 50 pound bars, etc. and doing basically the same exercises, but burning different calories, etc. So they allow you to log it to track that you have done it, but they can't 'guess' at what you have actually burned... too many variables.

Any physical activity burns calories. How many calories burned will vary depending on the type of activity you are doing. I wear a heart rate monitor while doing my strength-training workouts. Certain strength-training activities get my heart rate really going, such as squats and lunges. Others (some of the upper body work) keep me in more of a fat-burning zone. When I do a full hour of strength-training, rotating between exercises that do get my heart rate up and those that only moderately increase my heart rate, I typically burn 400-600 calories. You absolutely do burn calories when you weight train. It's a great way to burn fat since the lower heart rate zones are your fat-burning zones.

When I enter my strength-training workouts to MFP, I add them as cardiovascular exercises so I can record the burned calories. I am not really concerned with tracking how many reps I did on 15-20 different weight-training activities. That would take too long to enter. It's easier for me to enter a cardiovascular activity titled "Strength-Training, Full Body" with the time and calories burned.

The reason that strength training doesn't 'count' here is because there is no way to accurately judge. I may be lifting 10 to 20 pound dumbells while you may be lifting 45 - 50 pound bars, etc. and doing basically the same exercises, but burning different calories, etc. So they allow you to log it to track that you have done it, but they can't 'guess' at what you have actually burned... too many variables.

Exactly. The only way to know how many calories you've burned during a strength-training workout is to wear a heart rate monitor that calculates calories. That's what I do.

It would seem a HRM is the only way to accurately measure. Even execution of the routines vary so widely there is no way to create a standard measure.

Some of the d'bags at the gym spend so much time alternating between staring at themselves in the mirror and making eyes at the cardio bunnies I am sure that even though they spend hours at the gym their burn is less than it would have been sitting on the sofa.

You should definitely do a mix of both...cardio is a huge calorie burner but weight lifting isn't anything to slack off on! I wear my heart rate monitor while I lift, and while it's not quite as high as cardio, I burn plenty of calories. Plus building muscle has added benefits for calorie burning because muscle burns more calories than fat at rest. So while MFP may not count it for the multitude of reasons here, which are good points, have no fear you're still burning the cals!

It would seem a HRM is the only way to accurately measure. Even execution of the routines vary so widely there is no way to create a standard measure.

Some of the d'bags at the gym spend so much time alternating between staring at themselves in the mirror and making eyes at the cardio bunnies I am sure that even though they spend hours at the gym their burn is less than it would have been sitting on the sofa.

A customizable HRM is a good measure of cals burned.

I agree on the people staring in the mirror - they are lifting 10x as much weight as I am, but my avg HR is around 130 during my sessions since I alternate between muscle groups or circuit type activities (med ball, plyo, burpees, etc.). I have ZERO patience, so when I finish a set of 6 reps bench, I run over to the standing ab frame and do ab crunches, then run back and do another set. When I do squats, I run over to the mat and do crunches with a med ball, etc... No downtime. Certainly no mirror - there is time for that at home.

Greg

I agree, crosstraining with little rest between sets is the way I do it too. Way more efficient.