Working out exercise calories burned HELP

Janeyrob1

I am soooooo confused. I run for 30 mins on the treadmill, I'm 46 and weigh 226 lbs.

My confusion I how do I work out my call burned.

Runkeeper tells me it's 188 cals and mfp tells me I burn 426. I eat back my calories and that's a big difference.

Any advice ? Xxxx

QuilterInVA

What's your incline and speed? That has a lot to do with it. I use a Body Media Core so I don't have this problem.

bpmartyr

Roughly 100 cals per mile will give you a pretty accurate number.

Sjenny5891

I like to use Endomondo. I have found the problem with any stationary exercise, it wants to factor in miles for the calories burned.... which I can't enter on my phone, so it is always lower.

I think?? runtastic is the same.. i've only used it a couple of times.

megsmom2

MFP numbers are notoriously high for exercise. The lower one you quoted is probably much more accurate. If you want to be really accurate you can get a HRM, but its certainly not essential.

hararayne

I have a fitbit and I find it to be immensely helpful with tracking running/walking type exercise, plus my daily activity. It integrates beautifully with mfp.

The only things I now track seperately are swimming and the occasional weights type workout.

That said, I've heard 1 mile equals about 100 calories, whether your run it or walk it. Before I got the fitbit, I just decreased my total time, like if I walked/ran for 45 min I would put in 30 minutes instead. Hope that helps!

Faye_Anderson

If the treadmill is a regular thing maybe work it into your activity level so you don't need to worry about the burn. If you go to http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/ and work out your calories with the correct activity level you don't need to add exercise calories :flowerforyou:

kylamaries

For a while, I plugged my runs into just about every calorie calculator on the web. Now I use http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-fitness-calorie-counter to calculate my calories in order to check myfitnesspal's estimates. For me, MFP is typically accurate (I weigh 120 lbs and stand at 5'6") give or take a few calories.

Since you didn't provide a pace and/or incline, I just plugged it in as "running (general)" put your weight at 226 and the duration at 30 minutes -- I got 411 calories burned.

Maybe you should invest in an HRM, because the numbers are varying quite a lot here. Good luck!

hararayne

I had another thought. I don't know how runkeeper works, but does it take into account your weight and other stuff? I mean, a heavier person naturally burns more calories, but if it's simply tracking distance perhaps it would give you a skewed number.