Calories Burned on Ellipitcal 546

ichigo007

Ok I have been reading a lot of pages on how people beleive that because you are basically going up hill on must incline ellipticals when using the formula: calories = kilometers x kilograms x 1.036 for calories burned does not include factors for running up hill or resistance settings of ellipitical.
Excel Formula: =((miles)*1.609344)*((weight in lbs)*0.45359237)*1.036

A physist came up with a formula to calculate extra calories burned moving up a grade (Formula: extra calories = kilograms x % grade x kilometers / 10 where % grade can be found by Tan angle) and you are suppose to added that to the calories from first formula.
excel formula: =((weight in lbs)*0.45359237)*(TAN(RADIANS((((cross ramp #)-1)*1.42105263158)+13))*100)*((miles)*1.609344)/10
Note: the crossramp grade calculations in this formula are based on the Precor Elliptical 546i and are different on other machines.

Then the resistance usually in watts can be translated into calories burned during work out by taking the formula: (resistance wattage amount) * (rpm or strides/2) * (seconds worked out) / 4186
Excel formula: =((((((resistance setting #)-1)*0.331578947368)+0.9)*((strides per minute)/2))*(minutes worked out))*(minutes worked out)*60)/4186
Note: these resistance watt formula pertains only to the precor elliptical 546i and would be different than other machines

I guess my question is does adding these 3 formulas up make since for actual total calories burned?

ichigo007

bump

LuckyLeprechaun

buying a heart rate monitor would be way easier than all that math.

ichigo007

buying a heart rate monitor would be way easier than all that math.

well if you go by the formulas you are burnning alot lot more calories than a heart monitor is saying.

LuckyLeprechaun

That's why I don't.