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calories burned

ittybittybadonkadonk
ittybittybadonkadonk Posts: 11,634 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I am new to this site .... not understanding how to know how many calories burned when i workout ... i am guessing but is there really a way to be accurate?? please let me know thanks

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  • BrendaLee
    BrendaLee Posts: 4,463 Member
    If you enter your exercise on MFP, it will tell you approximately how many calories you've burned.
  • chroberts
    chroberts Posts: 6
    I'm not sure that is real accurate, though. How do calories burned for exercise get entered into the exercise log? Who determined how many calories were burned for each exercise? I golf 3 times per week, usually pulling my clubs, sometimes riding in a cart. The calories burned that are listed for riding in a cart for a 4 hour round of golf are pretty high.
  • lose100
    lose100 Posts: 54
    I have compared the calories burned here to calories burned on other sites, and they are all pretty close. However, I don't know exactly how, they come up with the numbers. I REALLY want a Bodybugg, as I feel that would be the best way to really be accurate, but we don't use Internet Explorer on our computer, and that's what you need. So, I am going with this for now. When I lost 52 pounds three years ago, this was the type of site I used, and it must have been pretty accurate!
  • RecliningFigure
    RecliningFigure Posts: 214 Member
    I am new to this site .... not understanding how to know how many calories burned when i workout ... i am guessing but is there really a way to be accurate?? please let me know thanks

    Many members use a heart rate monitor to gage calorie burn. Look at some of the discussions under Fitness and HRM. There was one a day or two ago, and then another one about week ago.
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