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angelahammon

i was on my exercise bike at home for 32 minutes, it said i had burned 470 calories, my heart rate was 143 and 120 watts, now on mfp it says i would have burned 372 calories and the website for my gym membership said it would have burned 296 calories, i don't know which to go with, i thought i was doing well at 470 calories lol,

JeneticTraining

Take the average.

angelahammon

ok thanks

MinnieInMaine

Compared to what my Polar HRM (heart rate monitor) gives me for calorie burn, I find most cardio machines overestimate by about a third. Plus you'd have to be working pretty hard to have burned more than 10 calories per minute. So I'd say the website is the most accurate. (to be clear, I mean 296 calories burned sounds right)

If nothing else, lowball. If you plan to eat back those calories, you don't want to be overestimating!

angelahammon

Compared to what my Polar HRM (heart rate monitor) gives me for calorie burn, I find most cardio machines overestimate by about a third. Plus you'd have to be working pretty hard to have burned more than 10 calories per minute. So I'd say the website is the most accurate. (to be clear, I mean 296 calories burned sounds right)

If nothing else, lowball. If you plan to eat back those calories, you don't want to be overestimating!

thats true, id rather take the lowest number then

Cyclink

as a guideline, 100 watts is 360 calories per hour.

120 watts would be 540 per hour, so 32 minutes would be 288 calories. It sounds like the gym website is closest.