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Calculating calories burned

Frappuzzino
Frappuzzino Posts: 342 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
My future FIL is in the medical field and has a thing you put on your index finger that measures your BPM and oxygen level. If I do the correct math with that BPM and oxygen level, will I be able to accurately get my calories burned?

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  • Shweedog
    Shweedog Posts: 883 Member
    No. A pulse oximeter measures the amount of O2 attached to your hemoglobin. Not the amount of O2 your body consumes. That is the O2 number you need for the calories burned equation.
  • mattellis2
    mattellis2 Posts: 152
    I have been using this calculator for the last couple of months. Its values seem to match up closely with those in fitnesspal's database (for me at least) as well as with my little bike computer. V02 max is somewhat difficult to measure accurately outside lab conditions from what I understand, but most normal people's values are about 25-30.

    http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm
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