Exercise Bike Calorie Counter
AspenDan
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I'm 320lbs, 6'1, and I just used a recumbent exercise bike for exactly 30 mins, going almost exactly 7 miles (14mph average), varrying difficulty levels, with an average heart rate of 148...I'm SPENT...but the machine had all that info and said I only burned 200 cals....Are you kidding me? half an hour of insane effort afforded me a damn quest bar?? Any thoughts?
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That seems very low but try a different calculator and see what you get
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/activity-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx0 -
Did you enter your weight into the machine? I'm 163lbs and at a pretty good pace burn roughly 10cal/min if this helps, speed avg around 25/26kph (16 mph) and gym says they calibrate devices regularly.
Check this link out published by Harvard re cals burned p/30 min by weight groups:
health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Calories-burned-in-30-minutes-of-leisure-and-routine-activities.htm
While it doesn't list your group it may give you some more information
Hope this helps
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Well, the bad news is that 200 calories may be a bit generous. The thing that makes 30 minutes at 14mph seem like a lot of effort is probably your weight. You may have fat built up around your lungs and heart, which would make it more difficult to exercise. But keep at it and you'll improve.0
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Seems a bit off
Try again and make sure you have hit enter at the end of punching in your personal numbers
Work is work and you definitely burnt off serious calories
Good workout
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professionalHobbyist wrote: »Seems a bit off
Try again and make sure you have hit enter at the end of punching in your personal numbers
Work is work and you definitely burnt off serious calories
Good workout
Hey thanks for the support.0 -
professionalHobbyist wrote: »Seems a bit off
Try again and make sure you have hit enter at the end of punching in your personal numbers
Work is work and you definitely burnt off serious calories
Good workout
^^Yep - this.
Kudos for getting on the thing and working it!0 -
lalabrucey wrote: »professionalHobbyist wrote: »Seems a bit off
Try again and make sure you have hit enter at the end of punching in your personal numbers
Work is work and you definitely burnt off serious calories
Good workout
^^Yep - this.
Kudos for getting on the thing and working it!
Thanks much! What exercise do you like to do?
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A bit of everything - I mix it up and spend either 10 or 15 mins per cardio machine so in a one hour session I do 4 or 5 machines. Other times I do some machines and some weights but normally in 15min chunks otherwise I get bored and slow down.
I love the cross/eliptical trainer as I can burn a lot more in the same time than the bike but if I do much more than about 15/20mins at once my feet feel weird.
It works for me anyway My Diary is open if you want to take a look 0 -
Ignore the "speed" you really can't compare speed of an exercise bike to cycling outdoors. Your real speed is 0mph!
For recumbent exercise bike your weight is largely irrelevant for calorie burns as it's not a weight bearing exercise.
Main thought is - good for you, keep at it and your fitness and health will improve.0 -
Ignore the "speed" you really can't compare speed of an exercise bike to cycling outdoors. Your real speed is 0mph!
For recumbent exercise bike your weight is largely irrelevant for calorie burns as it's not a weight bearing exercise.
Main thought is - good for you, keep at it and your fitness and health will improve.
I agree with him
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My exercise bike is a cheapie. It gives the number of calories burned, but doesn't allow me to program in my stats. However, it's not recumbent and the handles move back and forth as well. It tells me that at an average of 14 mph that I burn nearly 300 calories in 30 minutes, which I don't quite believe. One of these days I'll get a fitbit.0
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atypicalsmith wrote: »My exercise bike is a cheapie. It gives the number of calories burned, but doesn't allow me to program in my stats. However, it's not recumbent and the handles move back and forth as well. It tells me that at an average of 14 mph that I burn nearly 300 calories in 30 minutes, which I don't quite believe. One of these days I'll get a fitbit.
Fitbit is totally wrong device!0 -
danieltsmoke wrote: »Any thoughts?
a heart rate monitor would be great for getting a more accurate figure. 200 cals for 30 mins is roughly what i get when spinning at a moderate pace, but i weigh around 170.
So it looks like the bike is using a basic algorithm to calculate the calories burnt that doesn't take into account your height and weight.
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Your best bet is to get a heart rate monitor, I got a cheap one off amazon for ~$30 that goes through bluetooth to your phone, then automatically syncs with MFP. For cardio it's really the only way to know for sure how much your are burning.0
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SwindonJogger wrote: »danieltsmoke wrote: »Any thoughts?
a heart rate monitor would be great for getting a more accurate figure. 200 cals for 30 mins is roughly what i get when spinning at a moderate pace, but i weigh around 170.
So it looks like the bike is using a basic algorithm to calculate the calories burnt that doesn't take into account your height and weight.
Since he isn't going anywhere and he is just sitting and moving his legs, there's no reason to think that his weight would give him any different numbers than you. It is difficult to judge from people's heart rate, but 148 seems like a fairly low intensity exercise for a fat man.0 -
atypicalsmith wrote: »My exercise bike is a cheapie. It gives the number of calories burned, but doesn't allow me to program in my stats. However, it's not recumbent and the handles move back and forth as well. It tells me that at an average of 14 mph that I burn nearly 300 calories in 30 minutes, which I don't quite believe. One of these days I'll get a fitbit.
Fitbit is totally wrong device!
Hmmm, I thought fitbit was the "in" thing these days, but what do I know? Actually, I have no desire to wear any device. Give me a regular pedometer any time! As long as the digital needle on the scale keeps going down, I'm good.0 -
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That sounds about right. 30 min on a bike only gets me 150 cals.0
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atypicalsmith wrote: »atypicalsmith wrote: »My exercise bike is a cheapie. It gives the number of calories burned, but doesn't allow me to program in my stats. However, it's not recumbent and the handles move back and forth as well. It tells me that at an average of 14 mph that I burn nearly 300 calories in 30 minutes, which I don't quite believe. One of these days I'll get a fitbit.
Fitbit is totally wrong device!
Hmmm, I thought fitbit was the "in" thing these days, but what do I know? Actually, I have no desire to wear any device. Give me a regular pedometer any time! As long as the digital needle on the scale keeps going down, I'm good.
A fitbit won't really measure cycling well .. although some people put it in their sock
A HRM for steady-state cardio on a bike should work better
Or did you mean one of the 'spenny Fitbits that double as HRM .. I don't like them0 -
I burn about 25 calories per mile cycling, but that's outside with hills and wind and stop signs. Inside, I would expect to burn less.0
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You're exercising. That's what matters.
Unfortunately, a stationary bike is not going to give you a huge calorie burn 200c for 30 minutes sounds about right. To put that into perspective, I ran 9 miles yesterday and only burned 1,100 calories--and running is one of the higher calorie burning exercises.
Calorie intake is easy. Calorie burning is hard. When I came to equate junk food with the amount of time it takes to burn it off, I found it easier to start saying "no"--especially to soda (30 minutes of running for one Mt. Dew!?!? No thanks.)0 -
atypicalsmith wrote: »atypicalsmith wrote: »My exercise bike is a cheapie. It gives the number of calories burned, but doesn't allow me to program in my stats. However, it's not recumbent and the handles move back and forth as well. It tells me that at an average of 14 mph that I burn nearly 300 calories in 30 minutes, which I don't quite believe. One of these days I'll get a fitbit.
Fitbit is totally wrong device!
Hmmm, I thought fitbit was the "in" thing these days, but what do I know? Actually, I have no desire to wear any device. Give me a regular pedometer any time! As long as the digital needle on the scale keeps going down, I'm good.
A fitbit won't really measure cycling well .. although some people put it in their sock
A HRM for steady-state cardio on a bike should work better
Or did you mean one of the 'spenny Fitbits that double as HRM .. I don't like them
Hah, to be honest, I don't know what I meant! I don't know a thing about them except that they are expensive and everyone complains about them.
(Edited to try to bold text. Messed up the first time. Maybe second time's a charm?)0 -
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KrissSaysHi wrote: »i bought the first fitbit that ever came out, found all it did was make me paranoid. sent it back.
You are echoing my feelings exactly!0 -
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That seems very low but try a different calculator and see what you get
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/activity-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
These are really good i just compared to the treadmill i use at the gym and they are are so close I'll call them tbe same0 -
barryplumber wrote: »That seems very low but try a different calculator and see what you get
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/activity-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
These are really good i just compared to the treadmill i use at the gym and they are are so close I'll call them tbe same
My treadmill is way off unless I have the incline cranked up. I use a HRM and these calculators just to give me a ballpark average. My bike has HRM in the handlebars but it tends to triple my calorie burn so I don't even bother looking at it anymore
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KrissSaysHi wrote: »Yeah.. i don't know how the new ones work... but...
I work 12 hour shifts at a nursing home which involved a lot of walking and the fitbit was designed to "guess".
so i would get home at 7pm and do like 18,000 steps for the day but the calories burned for the day was based on if i kept up that pace right until midnight, so if it said i had like 500 extra calories from excersize as the remaining hours of the night kept on, because i was relaxing now, that 500 would drop each hour and i felt like i couldn't rely on those numbers to be used for anything (Cause i used to use some of my excersize calories to eat more if i was hungry) -- i mean, who is going to wait until midnight to see how many calories i actually have from excersize? i am sleeping by then.
Well it's a clever little doohickey (technical term) that learns your general patterns over time so that becomes more accurate
But for the first month or so you can't eat up to the fitbit adjustment because it will readjust the next day
If you were logging 18,000 steps you'd be getting a pretty good calorie increase from just that (I'm set to sedentary and if I log 10,000 I get over 450 calories .. dependent on intensity)0
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