Exercise bike

clactongirl2002

I purchased one and started with it today I've managed two ten minute workouts on it and it's said 140 calories for each ten minutes. Also it says I'm doing a speed of 36kmph, does that sound about right?

Marievine81

That does sound high, I did 30 mins on the bike this morning at a good speed and only racked up 179 cals, Did you have it on a high tolerance setting?

Marie

keithemp

It all depends on the resistance you have set on the bike. A high resistance setting will obviously burn more calories because your muscles have to work harder.

SingingSingleTracker

I purchased one and started with it today I've managed two ten minute workouts on it and it's said 140 calories for each ten minutes. Also it says I'm doing a speed of 36kmph, does that sound about right?

It depends on the resistance level. Can you set your profile on the exercise bike (weight, age, etc...)?

My exercise bike's console measures speed, distance, power (watts), heart rate, calories, and time. Resistance levels are from 1 to 20 and they measure power (watts) from 23 all the way up to 1400 watts. I could easily knock out 140 calories in 10 minutes going 36kmph (that's 22.3 mph for the metric challenged). If you increased the resistance level, you could knock out even more calorie burn, but the pace may have to slow a bit.

clactongirl2002

No I can't put settings for my weight in its a one body magnetic exercise bike and I had it on notch 3 so not overly high. I'm certainly sweating when I do it but wasn't sure how accurate the calories burnt was.