What am I REALLY burning

WildePillar

Hi everyone,

I purchased a nordictrack elliptical and I'm trying to figure out what I'm burning. I'm not able to program my stats. I'm a 33 yo female, 5'2/3", 102 pounds so I'm quite petite. Here's a pic of the screen when I'm done with the workout.


Any idea what my actual burn is? My HRM says 500 cals.

Thank you!!!

KittensMaster

I lean toward the HRM.

Over time you will be able to tell by your calories you eat, what you exercise, and how much you lose

I know lots of machines give high numbers. If they say 300 I call it 200.

But great job on your workout!!

450 or 500... It was a long good cardio burn.

DancingMoosie

Those machines usually calculate based on an average of 150lb. You are about 68% of that so you might have burned around 482 calories(68% of 709). It's all an estimate any way you calculate it...

gdyment

I'd feel confident using the HRM + a little bit.

barryplumber

To understand the difference between the gross and net calorie burn that the machines give you read
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/articles/net-versus-gross-calorie-burn.aspx

barryplumber

You could use your heart rate
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
This will give you your gross for your net there is a link here to do that calculation

fiddletime

I knock off a third of the calories that my treadmill says I burned. That also seems to fit my weight loss pretty closely. I'm also small at 5'2" and 134 (aiming for 120).

Mr_Knight

How far can you run in 50 minutes?

Sued0nim

Steady state or HIIT ?

If you've set your HRM up properly with your stats then HRM if steady state ..if HIIT than probably 70% of HRM

Or take 50-75% machine read out

Sued0nim

Ps the HIIT percentage is just what works for me based on rolling 8 week analysis

WildePillar

barryplumber wrote: »

You could use your heart rate
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
This will give you your gross for your net there is a link here to do that calculation

This was really helpful. Thanks!

WildePillar

Mr_Knight wrote: »

How far can you run in 50 minutes?

I'm not really a runner so I don't know

LivingtheLeanDream

go with the HRM...

Mr_Knight

WildePillar wrote: »

Mr_Knight wrote: »

How far can you run in 50 minutes?

I'm not really a runner so I don't know

In that case, I would log it as 'walking'. Use the exercise time from the machine, and 3.5mph as the speed (elliptical is half the METS of running so at best it was the equivalent of 5km -> 3 miles, but that's not a running speed, that's a walking speed).

And then cut that number by a third, because MFP over-estimates walking burns by double-counting BMR.

For a 150 pounder (as an example), the number will end up around 150 calories.