How much calories are you burning while weightlifting?

[OatsMan9000]

I´m making a nutrition plan, so I need to know how many calories I´m burning while weightlifting.

Is there a list, or a guide, somewhere, where I can check this?
Couldn´t find anything and I´ve been searching for a while.

Thx.

[SuffolkPunch]

It isn't a lot and you don't need to factor it in. Perhaps 1-200 calories over and above normal activities.

You are making guesses anyway, it doesn't really make any practical difference to just assume you burn about the same number of calories every day. Other errors in estimating TDEE and food intake will make a nonsense of trying to be too precise about it. It's about the broad strokes.

I generally eat the same calories regardless of training or no training.

[snailsrus]

Unless your doing an hour or more of cardio that gets your heart rate up and sweating, exercise wont affect your daily caloric needs enough to factor it in

[blue9steel]

Two general approaches:

1) Ignore the amount you burn with exercise and just bundle it in your TDEE. This works well if your exercise routine is pretty stable and avoids estimation problems.

2) Attempt to estimate the amount you burn and figure that separately. This is theoretically better except for the problem that accurate estimates are fairly difficult. It does tend to work better if your routine is more variable.

Most people here used method #1 with great success. I like method #2, but then I like spreadsheets, math, regressions, etc. Either way will work as long as you are consistent in your application.

Calories burned per hour of exercise will be somewhat individual depending on a large number of factors like body weight, genetics, intensity, volume, rest times, net vs. gross, etc.

[PTzFree]

Ignore those calories.

The only [roughly] calculable calories are those burned during steady-state cardio because the intensity and duration is known. There is no way to calculate calories burned during curls, squats, bench,... because there's no way to calculate how much effort you used to move that weight or for how long. Best estimates say it's only a few hundred calories anyway, so don't bother.

You do cardio to increase your caloric deficit and you lift weights to harden/shape and/or build muscle.

I've safely included my steady-state calories into my deficit for a couple years now and it seems to work. I usually round down and keep a buffer greater than my deficit goal, though.

[OatsMan9000]

Thx a lot guys

[Tommy W.]

I've always just figured in 200 calories burned for a weight training session. Somedays maybe more and some less however the 200 seems to have always worked as a good average when calculating TDEE

[riverrbill]

a person weighing around 70 kilos can burn 112 calories during a 30-minute low-to-moderate-intensity strength-training session. Whereas, a person weighing 83 kilos can expect to burn approximately 133 calories doing equal work.

[SuffolkPunch]

a person weighing around 70 kilos can burn 112 calories during a 30-minute low-to-moderate-intensity strength-training session. Whereas, a person weighing 83 kilos can expect to burn approximately 133 calories doing equal work.

Sounds like you've applied a formula that was derived from a set of broad population data. What you don't see is the degree of uncertainty/variance in that result.

It's true to say that carrying more weight (and more muscle in particular) will probably result in more calories burned all else being equal. The problem is that all else is never equal...