MyFitnessPal

[LizC7]

Hi Everyone,
I'm experimenting with this. I entered some strength exercise and nothing registered. Does it not recognize calorie burn with weights? Also, is there an easy way to add a Cathe workout? I know I can get a rough calorie burn from the Workout Manager. Can I manually add that to My Fitness Pal somehow?

 

[desertambrosia]

Hi Everyone,
I'm experimenting with this. I entered some strength exercise and nothing registered. Does it not recognize calorie burn with weights? Also, is there an easy way to add a Cathe workout? I know I can get a rough calorie burn from the Workout Manager. Can I manually add that to My Fitness Pal somehow?

This is why I got so frustrated with "My Fitness Pal." It didn't recognize a squat, bench, basically anything that was remotely weightlifting. It only recognized cardio. I gave it up because, there has got to be something better somewhere.

 

[bayerngirl]

You have to add all your weight workouts as cardio

 

[psusoccer17]

I wear a heart rate monitor and then record those numbers. A random calorie burn will be very inaccurate, it depends on how hard you worked, how heavy you lifted etc.. I never use cathe's numbers in the WM either, if you can afford one, a HR monitor will be a good investment for cardio and for weights.

 

[MomInVT]

On MFP, I used 'Circuit/Strength' for lifting and 'Circuit [training?]' for metabolic stuff. The calorie burn always seemed about right, and mostly matched the calorie burn in the WM. Of course, it's all ballpark, as psusoccer says.

 

[lsa40]

There's also a "Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)" option you can enter under cardio exercise. You can manually enter the number of calories burned from the Workout Manager in the calories box on the add exercise screen (on the far right side).

 

[fox2star]

Hi,

Belinda is correct, you can enter any weight workout, by name etc under "Cardio" and then just put in the time and calories burned. It treats this the same as if you entered any other workout....not sure why they didn't have the option to enter calories burned with strength workouts, but it all ends up showing up on your "calories burned" reports in the same way. The good thing about using this is you then are starting a "frequently done" workout list of your own that you can eventually just select the workout and add the time/calories.