Burning Cals?

drugrug
drugrug Posts: 50
in Fitness and Exercise
I've been running up and down my stairs for 15 minutes a day (I do 4 sets of 15 for a total of 60 and I stop for water). When I type this in the exercise data base it says I'm burning 204 calories. The workout is pretty intense (for me) but I don't feel like I'm burning anywhere near 200 calories. At the gym it seems to take me way longer to burn this much. Am I really burning off this many?

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  • longtimeterp
    longtimeterp Posts: 614 Member
    are you saying you only go up and down a total of 60 steps in 15 min? i can get 150-200 cals on the stepmill for 15min, but that involves intervals of 45sec at 80/min and 45sec at 160/min, so im going up like 2400 steps total in that time
  • drugrug
    drugrug Posts: 50
    Yeah. It is literally only running up and down my stairs 60 times
  • carolyn0613
    carolyn0613 Posts: 162 Member
    I think the exercise burns on here are good for walking and running but for anything else they are a quite a bit overestimated. Use the gym numbers to estimate it better and just change the calories on your entry
  • jdad1
    jdad1 Posts: 1,899 Member
    the actuel calorie burn for your body does not change regardless of what it says on here.
  • Inshape13
    Inshape13 Posts: 680 Member
    If you have a hrm you can check the numbers with what you calculate from it against what you get here. It is hard sometimes to gauge the number of calories burned by a calculator alone. When I do the arc machine at the gym(stair climber basically) I can burn 11 calories a minute and I am 137lbs and exercise all the time though and really have to push....it depends on your weight how much you can easily burn, I used to be able to do way more calories in my bigger days. Shape magazine has a calculator on their site that estimates a bit under and that I have found is closer to what my hrm says I burn.
  • MeanSophieCat
    MeanSophieCat Posts: 200 Member
    The calories on here are really just general estimates. Your burn is going to depend on more than just your height, weight, and age.

    Three possible suggestions:

    1. Buy a heart-rate monitor for a better way to track calories burned.
    2. Be conservative about eating back your exercise cals. Start eating back only 50%, wait a few weeks and then check your scale (or whatever measurement you are using). Adjust as necessary.
    3. Calculate TDEE and eat at a percentage lower than that.
  • lambchoplewis
    lambchoplewis Posts: 797
    Just keep moving!!! Any calories burned are better than sitting at the desk or on the couch!! Walk, run, walk steps anything. You are doing great and I am going to skip all elevators and walk steps. Thanks.

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