Strength Exercises, no calories used?

you have to use cardio - strength training

It's all a guess anyway.
Standing in the rack doing curlbro stuff burns radically different calories than slinging 200lbs on your traps and going *kitten* to ground in squats.

Under the cardivascular exercises, you can search strength training to show calories burned. I think the strength exercise section is just for your record. Hope this helps

I am frustrated by the same thing. MFP does not take into account that fact that lifting weights burns calories even after you are done with the exercise....even days later. I do not know how to account for this on MFP, so if anyone else does, I would love to hear how. Until then, I am just satisfied knowing that my body is burning more than MFP is giving it credit for.

:bigsmile: I have a heart rate monitor that tells me how many calories I burn during a weight training session. ....I created my own entry under cardio and enter the time and calories burned.

I'm no expert, but after months of using an HRM for weights and getting no results I went in search of a reason. A lady (I don't know how to find her post) broke down the reasoning behind her argument. Basically a HRM isn't very efficient for weights due to a difference in the cause of heart rate increase. It is acurate for the sustained increase from cardio since the constant exertion on the muscles requires an increase in the need of oxygen being pumped to the muscles. The increase in heart rate from weights is caused by a different action. It is due to a pressure increase within the body from muscle contraction not a greater need for blood flow.

I used to wear the HRM for an hour or 2 of weights and then a half hour of cardio. It was giving me calorie burns of 1300 to 1700 calories during those sessions. Yes weights burn calories, and yes, greater muscle mass burns a larger amount of calories during the rest of our days, but I highly doubt that I was actually burning 1700 calories in a 2.5 hr workout.

I still wear the HRM for weights, but now I reset it after weights so the 2 are recorded seperately. Then I record 70-80% of the calories it tells me I burned during the weights session. Sometimes less depending on how much sweat I left at the gym.

Again, I am not an expert and I didn't write the original reasoning. I just wanted to post this in case someone knew how to find the propper thread from a month or so back. it was useful info.

Edit to specify: I should state that I believe my HRM is fairly accurate. For a half hour on the eliptical at roughly 140 beats per minute it says that I burn around 260 -330 calories. so that is accurate for my size. The weights were just too high to believe.