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help calculating cals burned please?
Sandytoes71
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HI I am 5'2 198lbs female. Can someone please help me with figuring out cals burned doing week 3 day 1 of couch to 5k training plan? Any help is very appreciated! :-)
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Why not just use your average pace? That is how I do it. I ran week 3 day 1 in 25 minutes at a distance of 1.89 miles. Which I use a mph calculator and use my time and mph to get my average which I put into mfp.
I hope that wasn't confusing!
http://www.machinehead-software.co.uk/bike/speed_distance_time_calc.html
So my average pace was 4.5 mph for 25 minutes. MFP does the rest.0 -
Are you doing it outside or on a treadmill?
I like to use heart rate calculators - my HR during the run intervals gets to about 160, and drops to about 135/140 for the walks, so I put in an average heart rate of 147 for this calculator to get my numbers:
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
I just use the little handle bars on my treadmill to check my heart rate every few minutes
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