Stationary Bike

Elisaday

Hi all,

I have recently been given a stationary bike to use to help with my weight loss and fitness. I'm having a bit of a struggle with getting to grips with it. It is very old, no digital info pane or anything like that. It has a little gauge on how fast your going and a twiddly knob for the resistance. So far I've been doing about 30 mins a night and going to start doing another 30 in the morning and extending the evening more once I get used to it.
The only thing is I have no idea if the amount of calories I'm ACTUALLY burning are the same as when I record it on here as I don't know if I'm working hard enough. I don't put it on a really high resistance, enough to feel warm about 10-15 mins in.
Could anyone give me any info on if/what I'm doing wrong?
Also I was watching videos on Youtube, and they all do a standing section, I cant do that on my bike! The pedals stick at the bottom, is it that I've got the seat height wrong, or that I'm just rubbish??

Thanks
Elisa

marielw

Hi Elisa,

I've got a pretty old stationary bike aswell, but it does tell me calories burned. I don't have it on a high resistance, probably medium, like you said enough to get warm after about 10-15 minutes. I find that it says that i burn 350 calories after about 32 minutes. On MFP, it is a little less, probably closer to 300, so i normally log a bit inbetween. Good luck!
Marie

dcmat

The best way to check your cal. burn would be to buy/borrow a HRM. The MFP should only be used as a guide - as you fitness goes up, your cal burn will go down!