I know this has been asked before...Treadmill calories

typicallyjazzy

So I'm currently 119 pounds with about 5 more pounds to lose before I meet my goal. I eat 1200 calories daily and exercise 6 days a week for 30 minutes. When I'm at the gym I use the treadmill and walk at an incline of 9.5-10 at 3.5mph for 30 minutes. The machine tells me this burns about 207 or so calories. I put in my weight to the machine but there is no setting to adjust height and other stats. When I wear my Polar F7 hrm it also tells me I've burned over 200 calories. However, I rarely use the hrm because I feel it's inaccurate. It slips down sometimes and I'm pretty sure if I'm sitting doing nothing for 5 minutes it'd still say I was burning 2 calories a minute. Needless to say I'm not very confident in it and am unsure how many calories I'm actually burning.

So you calorie burning experts out there, how many calories do you think I burn on the treadmill walking 3.5 mph at a 9.5-10 incline for 30 minutes at 119 pounds. Also, I'm 5'3. Of course, I'm not looking for an exact number but an estimate of some sort. Or could you tell me if the machine and my hrm is about right?

pondee629

I've been told that the equation for walking calories is: Weight in pounds times .3 times distance in miles.

in your case; 119 * .3 * 1.75 = 62 calories total. It's a generic equation. Whether you get more burn for the incline, I don't know.

sijomial

Height and "other stats" aren't really relevant - that's why it only asks your weight.
Distance and weight are enough for flat walking exercise estimate. Incline would push the effort level up of course.

You can't estimate HRM exercise calorie burn estimates by sitting down!
But you could do a flat, fast walk and use formula above to get a ballpark figure for how close your HRM is though (warm up first though to get into your working range).
Unless you are pushing your walking hard then there's a good chance your HR is simply not high enough for a basic HRM like the FT7 to get anywhere close.

cschafer2016

Try this calculator. http://42.195km.net/e/treadsim/