Calorie burn

DeannaSofia886
DeannaSofia886 Posts: 77 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm sure this has been asked to death- but my question is how accurate do you think the arc trainer at the gym estimation of calories burned is? I put in my current age and weight- so I was hoping it was fairly accurate.

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  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Do you plug in height and gender too? If the arc trainer assumes you are male....not so good. Height AND weight gives the machine a (very) general idea of lean muscle percentage. More muscle....generally a higher burn.

    Log the number in MFP. Eat back a percentage. Test that out for a few weeks. If weight loss stalls, then eat a smaller percentage. If weight loss is higher than expected (or you feel run down) eat more.
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