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Website for energy expenditure - Walking?

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  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    edited January 2018
    sijomial wrote: »
    Kalex1975 wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Clawsal wrote: »
    Is map my walk (App) accurate?

    Every time someone posts about MapMyWalk the calorie estimates given are very, very elevated.

    I compared my MapMyWalk calorie counts with the various calculators people posted on this thread and it was pretty close to what they estimated. It is definitely not "very very elevated".


    Lucky you. I'll modify my advice to "often frequently elevated" then! :)
    I've seen numerous posts where the calories giving were hugely inflated, even hugely inflated for gross calories let alone net calories.
    A comparison against the standard walking formula makes a lot of sense.

    MapMyWalk for me was comically high, Runkeeper was high, Strava was reasonable but a little high.

    This might have something to do with it trying to calculate the elevation of the walk aa well as. the distance but this is a guess. I'm not familiar with the algorithm.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Wheelhouse15 wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Kalex1975 wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Clawsal wrote: »
    Is map my walk (App) accurate?

    Every time someone posts about MapMyWalk the calorie estimates given are very, very elevated.

    I compared my MapMyWalk calorie counts with the various calculators people posted on this thread and it was pretty close to what they estimated. It is definitely not "very very elevated".


    Lucky you. I'll modify my advice to "often frequently elevated" then! :)
    I've seen numerous posts where the calories giving were hugely inflated, even hugely inflated for gross calories let alone net calories.
    A comparison against the standard walking formula makes a lot of sense.

    MapMyWalk for me was comically high, Runkeeper was high, Strava was reasonable but a little high.

    This might have something to do with it trying to calculate the elevation of the walk aa well as. the distance but this is a guess. I'm not familiar with the algorithm.

    @Wheelhouse15
    It would be nice to discover the algorithms wouldn't it? Even just to get an idea if they are attempting to estimate net or gross would be useful. From my cycling I would assume Strava takes elevation into account for walking too but no idea of the others.
    I managed to get to the bottom of the algorithm used by my WattBike indoor cycle trainer and it's seriously weird - led by Marketing rather than science would be a cynical suspicion.....
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    Wheelhouse15 wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Kalex1975 wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Clawsal wrote: »
    Is map my walk (App) accurate?

    Every time someone posts about MapMyWalk the calorie estimates given are very, very elevated.

    I compared my MapMyWalk calorie counts with the various calculators people posted on this thread and it was pretty close to what they estimated. It is definitely not "very very elevated".


    Lucky you. I'll modify my advice to "often frequently elevated" then! :)
    I've seen numerous posts where the calories giving were hugely inflated, even hugely inflated for gross calories let alone net calories.
    A comparison against the standard walking formula makes a lot of sense.

    MapMyWalk for me was comically high, Runkeeper was high, Strava was reasonable but a little high.

    This might have something to do with it trying to calculate the elevation of the walk aa well as. the distance but this is a guess. I'm not familiar with the algorithm.

    @Wheelhouse15
    It would be nice to discover the algorithms wouldn't it? Even just to get an idea if they are attempting to estimate net or gross would be useful. From my cycling I would assume Strava takes elevation into account for walking too but no idea of the others.
    I managed to get to the bottom of the algorithm used by my WattBike indoor cycle trainer and it's seriously weird - led by Marketing rather than science would be a cynical suspicion.....

    Yeah, those proprietary algorithms are ... well proprietary *KITTEN**
  • hotel4dogs
    hotel4dogs Posts: 72 Member
    I'm curious how to figure out how many calories you burn walking in chest deep water, like in a pool.

    Clawsal wrote: »
    hotel4dogs wrote: »
    How about walking in chest deep water?

    What?

  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    edited January 2018
    Clawsal wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    Walking is bodyweight in lbs x 0.3 x distance in miles

    This seems rather low (like 160 kcal for one hour of walking) and it doesn't take speed into account? Surely you burn more calories when walking faster?

    You burn more calories per minute. So if you are comparing workouts by time, then yes, walking 4.0 mph for one hour will burn more calories than walking 2.0 mph.

    If you are comparing workouts by distance, then walking speed is not as relevant. That’s because, although you burn more calories per minute, it takes fewer minutes to cover the distance—so it ends up pretty much even.

    As others said, the 160 seems low because it subtracts resting energy expenditure (which is about 80-85 calories in your case, I suspect).
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