Working out calories burned during weights session?

nick23

Just wondering if anyone knows how/where i can calculate how many calories I burn when doing a weights session?

Been looking around on google but cant really seem to find anything too accurate or useful

here to be trained

heart rate monitor should do the trick. Argos sell them.

corkcomp

here to be trained wrote: »

heart rate monitor should do the trick. Argos sell them.

how did you figure that out? HR monitor might be some use for SS cardio but not for weights session.. anyways, the major calorie burn will be post workout recovery period once you lift heavy

Red Cortina

nick23 wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone knows how/where i can calculate how many calories I burn when doing a weights session?

Been looking around on google but cant really seem to find anything too accurate or useful

This thread has some recommendations that might be useful to you:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=50956807&postcount=17

here to be trained

last time i checked a heart rate monitor will tell you how many calories you have burned at the end of a session, whether its weights or cardio..the op asked "how many calories I burn when doing a weights session" so there wasnt really much working out lol, its pretty simple.

denvey

Weight training burns between 270-450 per hour. Dependant on the intensity.

Will Heffernan

nick23 wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone knows how/where i can calculate how many calories I burn when doing a weights session?

Been looking around on google but cant really seem to find anything too accurate or useful

I usually figure it this way...
Day Off: 30-33 cal/kg
Medium Training Day (60mins): 35-40cal/kg
Heavy Training Day (90+mins): 40-50cal/kg

All my athletes/clients tend to lose fat at a predictable rate...so I think I am pretty close to being spot on with that.

Blatter

Will Heffernan wrote: »

I usually figure it this way...
Day Off: 30-33 cal/kg
Medium Training Day (60mins): 35-40cal/kg
Heavy Training Day (90+mins): 40-50cal/kg

All my athletes/clients tend to lose fat at a predictable rate...so I think I am pretty close to being spot on with that.

Is that per Kg of lean body mass or total body mass ?

ragg

Will Heffernan wrote: »

I usually figure it this way...
Day Off: 30-33 cal/kg
Medium Training Day (60mins): 35-40cal/kg
Heavy Training Day (90+mins): 40-50cal/kg

All my athletes/clients tend to lose fat at a predictable rate...so I think I am pretty close to being spot on with that.

This is why you being on the internet is awesome, I love easy calculations. Can you put a little more context around this. When you say heavy & medium training days can you break it down into speak i can understand? If we are talking I.P workouts would a medium day be conditioning & a heavy day be a Strength day?

Will Heffernan

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

Is that per Kg of lean body mass or total body mass ?

Yes it is definitely one of those.

Will Heffernan

ragg wrote: »

This is why you being on the internet is awesome,

You had me at hello.

I love easy calculations.

Me too.

Can you put a little more context around this.

What do you mean?

When you say heavy & medium training days can you break it down into speak i can understand?

You'll have to let me know exactly how dumb you are first? What sort of level am I required to pitch this at.

If we are talking I.P workouts would a medium day be conditioning & a heavy day be a Strength day?

No...are you joking. I would take a hard IP strength day over a hard IP conditioning day any day.

I have heart rate data for both of those sessions....the conditioning day looks like a profile of the Himalaya's compared to the Wicklow Mountains.

ragg

No...are you joking. I would take a hard IP strength day over a hard IP conditioning day any day.

I have heart rate data for both of those sessions....the conditioning day looks like a profile of the Himalaya's compared to the Wicklow Mountains.

I was just going on the average length of the sessions. The Conditioning days are amazing at making you feel like you are going to die.

You'll have to let me know exactly how dumb you are first? What sort of level am I required to pitch this at.

I suppose the whole question is dumb if im honest, i think it boils down to how do I know if i'm training hard, which in hindsight is a bit of a stupid question to ask someone else.

I think knowing what kind of sessions broadly fit in what category would be enough. But if you want to explain in more detail i will try and keep up.

Barry.Oglesby

Easy method of knowing how hard you trained:

In your log rate every session between 1 and 5. 1 being a stroll and 5 being a near death experience. In a given training period I would expect one of my guys to have mostly 3s and 4s, some 2s and a couple of 1s and 5s. You rate it directly after the session and not retrospectively, this is important as time clouds your judgement, and mostly makes you think you were more awesome than you in fact were. This obviously isn't perfect, but I prefer it to calorie counting which can never account for intensity etc.

ragg

Seems like a plan that i couldn't possibly mess up. I will start adding that to my log from this evening.

I'm not one for calorie counting either especially as some of the calorie counting formulas are trying to do leaving cert maths. Simple guidelines like Will posted are invaluable if you need to sense check though.

Once again, thanks lads.

Barry.Oglesby

No prob. A combination of the two should give you a good insight into your training.

The Davestator

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

Easy method of knowing how hard you trained:

In your log rate every session between 1 and 5. 1 being a stroll and 5 being a near death experience. In a given training period I would expect one of my guys to have mostly 3s and 4s, some 2s and a couple of 1s and 5s. You rate it directly after the session and not retrospectively, this is important as time clouds your judgement, and mostly makes you think you were more awesome than you in fact were. This obviously isn't perfect, but I prefer it to calorie counting which can never account for intensity etc.

Agree with this, although i rate each lift out of ten immediately after finishing my sets.
example: before I start chest day, I'll look at the weight i lifted on my last chest day and the 'score' i gave it. If I've given it a 10/10 I'll stick with that weight, if I've given it an 8, I'll increase it.
Works for me

DARCHA22

go here

http://www.fitday.com/

done!

Barry.Oglesby

The Davestator wrote: »

Agree with this, although i rate each lift out of ten immediately after finishing my sets.
example: before I start chest day, I'll look at the weight i lifted on my last chest day and the 'score' i gave it. If I've given it a 10/10 I'll stick with that weight, if I've given it an 8, I'll increase it.
Works for me

yeah that wouldn't be a very good system. No offence, if it works for you carry on of course.

OP you need simplicity more than anything. As you were saying you'd need a maths degree for some stuff out there. A quick glance system is all you need. One session, one score. My fighters should keep one of these in their diaries but in reality only 20% or so ever do (coincidentally my best guys... or is it a coincidence!) and I check them to make sure I'm keeping the intensity high, or if they're posting too many 5s, if they need to back off (that can be a sign of overtraining, percieving training to be harder.