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Gym Machine vs. MFP, Calories Burned?

rachelr1116
Posts: 334 Member
Last night I went to the gym and decided to ride a stationary bike. I chose a program with some changes in resistance and tried to stay between 90 and 105 RPM. I did 45 minutes and the bike said I went a little over 10 miles and burned 298 calories. When I went to log it on MFP it gave me 510 calories. I went with 298 since I don't want to overestimate calories burned but that is quite a difference and I wanted to get some opinions. Which do you think is more accurate, machine or MFP?
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if the machine had your height, weight, and heart rate info i'd go with the machine.0
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I would pick the lower estimate in this case.
Machines can overestimate as well, but that is a pretty significant difference that even if you ate half of the calories burned from the machine reading, you wouldn't be doing too much damage.0 -
The machine did ask for my weight but not height and it did have a heart rate monitor. So, I'll just keep going with the machine readings!0
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