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what's more accurate the myfitnesspal calculation or...

kikirichards
kikirichards Posts: 16 Member
edited January 18 in Health and Weight Loss
what's more accurate the myfitnesspal calculation on calories burned during a workout or the gym equipment?
thanku

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  • queenbea77
    queenbea77 Posts: 404 Member
    To be honest I wouldn't put too much on either one. I wear a HR monitor & I find for the most part the readings on the machines are way too high. I have always used my readings from my HR monitor so I don't know about the counts from the website.
  • WilmaDennis91
    WilmaDennis91 Posts: 433 Member
    Neither are completely accurate. You just have to judge yourself if you should eat more or less of what you burned.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    Agree with those above. It really depends on the machine. The ones in my gym are pretty good, and in theory they should be more accurate because they take into account how hard you are pushing in your workout. Some of the counts on the home machines seem to be pretty off though.
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