Calories tracker help

VanessaLins90
VanessaLins90 Posts: 22 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have an app called stepz that counts how many steps I did, and it shows me I burned 200 calories, while the treadmill says I burn 415. Which one should I considered?
Thanks

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    edited May 2015
    VanessaLins90 wrote: »
    I have an app called stepz that counts how many steps I did, and it shows me I burned 200 calories, while the treadmill says I burn 415. Which one should I considered?
    Thanks

    Hard to say without more info...

    But as a general rule, the calorie burns posted by cardio machines are well known to be wildly inaccurate and often vastly overstated.

    Likely neither is all that accurate, but I'd be inclined to trust the step tracker more than the treadmill - even if only slightly so.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Go with the step tracker. :)
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    They're probably both wrong, so pick one and go with it. If your weight loss doesn't match what you estimate, adjust your calories accordingly.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    They're probably both wrong, so pick one and go with it. If your weight loss doesn't match what you estimate, adjust your calories accordingly.

    Agree but if I had to choose one I would choose the lower number. I would rather raise my calorie intake because I am losing too fast than lower it because I am not losing like I should.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I'd always choose the lowest.
  • VanessaLins90
    VanessaLins90 Posts: 22 Member
    I just think 200 calories is not enough. It was 75 minutes on the threadmill
  • VanessaLins90
    VanessaLins90 Posts: 22 Member
    treadmill*
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    VanessaLins90 wrote: »
    I just think 200 calories is not enough. It was 75 minutes on the threadmill

    Doing what? Walking at 3 mph with no incline? Or running full sprint at a 30% incline?
  • VanessaLins90
    VanessaLins90 Posts: 22 Member
    Running with intervals and inclined
  • VanessaLins90
    VanessaLins90 Posts: 22 Member
    I'm
    25 5.7 145 pounds
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    edited May 2015
    VanessaLins90 wrote: »
    I just think 200 calories is not enough. It was 75 minutes on the threadmill

    I think most people agree with you. Neither of the numbers are likely correct. What was the distance covered?
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    How many steps is it saying you took? I think you first need to look into the step-counting accuracy. If you ran 5 miles, that should be approximately 10,000 steps (on average, it's about 2000 steps for every mile). If your step counter is way off, then of course the calories are going to be way off.
  • VanessaLins90
    VanessaLins90 Posts: 22 Member
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    Right now it looks like this
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    Is this for the whole day? Do you remember the miles/steps/calories after you completed the treadmill?
  • VanessaLins90
    VanessaLins90 Posts: 22 Member
    jaga13 wrote: »
    Is this for the whole day? Do you remember the miles/steps/calories after you completed the treadmill?

    Yes for the day. The other days was wrong because I wasn't holding the phone. On the treadmill 840 calories from 1 hour and half Running with intervals

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