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Elliptical Calories Burned Accuracy?

fuzzyjon79
fuzzyjon79 Posts: 4
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
When I go to the gym, I wear a chest strap heart rate monitor and enter my age and weight into the machine before working out. The machine says I burn around 950 calories per hour. When I enter this into MFP, it tells me that 60 minutes on the elliptical should burn 1,061 calories. Which is the more accurate number?

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  • SimplyDeLish
    SimplyDeLish Posts: 539
    Your HRM is the best bet.
  • fuzzyjon79
    fuzzyjon79 Posts: 4
    That's what I thought. I've been playing around with the exercise portion of MFP and figured out how to manually override the number of calories burned. Thanks!
  • iverayna
    iverayna Posts: 48 Member
    I have a heart rate monitor.. I always go by that rather then the machines reading..
  • jeneey
    jeneey Posts: 48
    I go by the HRM also, but sometimes it is pretty close to what the machine reads.
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