Anybody using Endomondo to count calories burned?

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  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,616 Member
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    I have always used it, I love it, although I was gobsmacked when it said I burn 2200+ calories on a 7 mile walk in 1hr and 20mins!
    It's brilliant though.

    It is very unlikely this is accurate. More like a thousand?

    I don't know, I was walking an average a mile in 11 minutes. I haven't walked that fast for a long time. I was marching.

    But it would still defy the laws of physics, I'm afraid. :-)

    And btw you WALKED 11 min miles? really really? Are you sure? Cause that's jogging. Sounds to me like the endo was way, way off, in a range of ways.

    Endo is generally as accurate as the GPS device it's drawing off. It's more accurate for me on my current phone (a samsung s3) than it was on my previous one (an S2) and it's far more accurate when I have it interact with a specialist device (my garmin). And by accurate, I'm talking for distances, rather than cal burn.

    For cal burn, it routinely, and sometimes quite dramatically, overestimates.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,616 Member
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    Here's the laws of physics bit:

    http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/running-v-walking-how-many-calories-will-you-burn

    The calculators in here are pretty widely accepted to be the best way of calculating cal burn on the flat. Or use a HRM. It's still an estimate, but it's a pretty good estimate for steady state cardio.

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