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10-31-2008, 11:41 PM
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Do you trust the calories burned read out on work out equipment?
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10-31-2008, 11:45 PM
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11-01-2008, 12:04 AM
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11-01-2008, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | Not 100%, but I do like it because when I see it I tend to make it a personal goal to see how much I can burn or how fast I can make the number go up, hence making me exercise more.
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11-01-2008, 09:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | Those numbers are just averages. |
11-01-2008, 09:29 AM
|  | Ampeeeeeeg \o/ | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Israel | | | It can never know how many calories you've burned accurately, so obviously, no.
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11-01-2008, 09:38 AM
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11-01-2008, 09:39 AM
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11-01-2008, 11:07 AM
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11-01-2008, 02:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | Even if they are close to accurate, what does it buy me? I spend most of my day not on that piece of equipment, but still burning calories. Talk about useless information.
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11-01-2008, 02:42 PM
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11-01-2008, 02:44 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | Nope, I don't do the counting thing.
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11-01-2008, 03:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Martensville, Sask | | | not even close, then numbers are way higher(like 60%) on my elliptical than on the bike at the gym. And I'm working equally as hard on each.
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11-01-2008, 03:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | i would rather do the math on my own, but i have forgotten the formula.
i remember it had something to do with heart rate and time and something else minus your age.
i probably would remember if i still went to the gym. 
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11-01-2008, 03:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | They are useful relative to themselves. In other words, if you usually do 500 calories on a machine, but one day you do 600, you can be confident you did more that day. |
11-02-2008, 02:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | What is this "work out equipment" of which you speak? 
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11-02-2008, 02:26 PM
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11-02-2008, 03:57 PM
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11-02-2008, 04:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MCBTunes not even close, then numbers are way higher(like 60%) on my elliptical than on the bike at the gym. And I'm working equally as hard on each. | Not the same workout. Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacman On my personal treadmill, and my heart rate monitor, yes - because calories burned is based on body weight. Unless a piece of equipment weighs you first, no. | Most gym equipment will require a wight to calculate this. Quote:
Originally Posted by c-ba55 They are useful relative to themselves. In other words, if you usually do 500 calories on a machine, but one day you do 600, you can be confident you did more that day. | Exactly. |
11-02-2008, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5 i would rather do the math on my own, but i have forgotten the formula. | Force times velocity, or torque times angular velocity, are a couple of possibilities.
A friend of mine has a hub on his bike that measures calories burned. He and I chatted about it, and came to the conclusion that it is probably for real. Torque is easy to measure with a strain gauge sensor. Angular velocity is easy -- just timing the rotation of the wheel.
On stationary exercise gear, it's just a matter of how much trouble you want to expend and how accurate you want it to be.
If the underlying question of the OP is: "Why doesn't it seem like I am burning a lot of calories," the answer is probably: Exercise more and eat less. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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