Excercise calories wrong?

gettinghealthy777

It seems that the exercise calories burned on this site are wrong. I have googled exercise calories burned and they are always lower than the ones here. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed that.? And what about the food calories? I am wondering if their wrong too? I hope not:frown:

ivansmomma

If I don't think the calorie counts are correct, I goggle the product or if I have it at home, will check the package. Most products normally have nutritional information on their sites, as do restaurants, pizza places, etc. I have also checked other exercise sites, and if it isn't the same as MFP, I'll average the two. I also use the calculations in the Calorie King book to figure them out.

SkateboardFi

lol ^ she means the exercise calories..but yeah mfp can be a little off but be careful because i thought mfp overestimated my burned calories and when i bought my heart rate monitor it turned out i was actually burning MORE than what mfp entered. so it really just depends. i figured if i was going to go through the trouble of logging what i eat and monitoring my caloric intake i might as well have my calories burned as accurate as possible. thanks to my friends on here i actually found a polar ft4 on amazon.com for almost half the original price, brand new and i absolutely love it. hope this helped a bit.

skinnyinnotime

For me i've found not much difference in calories burnt by my hrm to mfp. The big difference was when there was not an exact comparison, like Zumba for example.

whodatgrl

For me i've found not much difference in calories burnt by my hrm to mfp. The big difference was when there was not an exact comparison, like Zumba for example.

google zumba calories burnt

craig1768

Heart Rate Monitors are a billion times more accurate for you than any web site.

If you bike as fast as you can for an hour vs casual biking for an hour is going to give a different burn
rate (other factors affect that also.... fitness level... sleep... etc). All sites are going to average everything
to the middle.

unluckyIrish

It also depends on how much you have to lose. Most of the time when you look up an exercise, it is based on how many calories a 150 lbs woman or a 175 lbs man would burn. If you are a woman or man who weighs more than that, you will burn more calories. As you lose weight, you will notice your calorie burns go down for the same amount of exercise.

sharishar

I programmed each piece of equipment in the gym with my weight and logged the calories burned for each one, then created them on the exercise section and I now have an accurate as can be calorie burn counter.

Hope this helps