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Cross trainer..calories burned?

annavalente
Posts: 119 Member
Hey,
So im just looking some advice really.
Ive been working out using a cross trainer for around 17 months now and have lost 46 lbs so far. Ive another 15lbs to go to get me to my goal of 120lbs but my cross trainer died a very sad death last week forcing me to upgrade!
I know this should be good news for me but Ive just used it tonight and its telling me that im buring half the calories I thought I was burning grrrrrr. My original machine said that my 14k was burning around 430 calories but this one is saying 211! Its the same make and I have it on the exact same setting! Im baffled!
Do I just stick with the calories this new machine is saying I have burned or should I perhaps use the mfp generic calculator when logging calories burned?
Also...could anyone recommend a good, cheap heart rate monitor I could use to be sure of the calories I burning?
Thanks
Anna :-)
So im just looking some advice really.
Ive been working out using a cross trainer for around 17 months now and have lost 46 lbs so far. Ive another 15lbs to go to get me to my goal of 120lbs but my cross trainer died a very sad death last week forcing me to upgrade!
I know this should be good news for me but Ive just used it tonight and its telling me that im buring half the calories I thought I was burning grrrrrr. My original machine said that my 14k was burning around 430 calories but this one is saying 211! Its the same make and I have it on the exact same setting! Im baffled!
Do I just stick with the calories this new machine is saying I have burned or should I perhaps use the mfp generic calculator when logging calories burned?
Also...could anyone recommend a good, cheap heart rate monitor I could use to be sure of the calories I burning?
Thanks
Anna :-)
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