Exercise Diary and Lifting Heavy

SPBROOKS68
SPBROOKS68 Posts: 561 Member
edited December 23 in Fitness and Exercise
How do you log days when you lift heavy? I have been logging it as circuit training because that is what the gym calls their 15 torture machines and I have been doing 3 sets of 10 on each as heavy as I can. But not sure what to call that in my exercise diary. Any other people use something similar to lift heavy? How do you log it?

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  • MisterOtter
    MisterOtter Posts: 25
    MFP suggests listing it as "strength training". If you're going through sets and reps with a heart rate monitor, you can get a good estimate of what the calorie burn would be. Otherwise, the site will not calculate it for you.

    I tend to enter each set of exercises that I do under strength training, just so I can keep track. For example, yesterday I entered my sets and reps individually for bicep curls, tricep extensions, and lat pulldowns. Then I entered "strength training" in the cardio section and entered my calorie burn.

    Hope that helps!
  • Jones1204
    Jones1204 Posts: 9
    Do any of you have an aerobics program that uses strength training? I have a few DVD's that do an aerobics style warm up then go back and forth from aerobics to reps with hand weights or resistance bands.... and I'm not sure if I should log it all as aerobics, or try to divide it up. Anyone else in this boat, or have some thoughts about it? :) Thanks!
  • SPBROOKS68
    SPBROOKS68 Posts: 561 Member
    MFP suggests listing it as "strength training". If you're going through sets and reps with a heart rate monitor, you can get a good estimate of what the calorie burn would be. Otherwise, the site will not calculate it for you.

    I tend to enter each set of exercises that I do under strength training, just so I can keep track. For example, yesterday I entered my sets and reps individually for bicep curls, tricep extensions, and lat pulldowns. Then I entered "strength training" in the cardio section and entered my calorie burn.

    Hope that helps!

    I do not have a heart rate monitor and do not want to list each exercise individually as some of the machines are not listed under the strength training section.
  • SPBROOKS68
    SPBROOKS68 Posts: 561 Member
    Somebody needs to tell me how they do this because a lot of women on here are lifting heavy...
  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    just go with strength training.


    HRM is useless for strength training.
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    I log it as strength training
  • sovannac
    sovannac Posts: 445 Member
    I log it as strength training as well.
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