How accurate are the treadmill calories?

hungrypotato

I just recently started running. I walked for 10 min at 4.0 but then for the rest of time a constant 7.0 with A few minutes here and there at about 8.0. The machine said I burned about 960 calories. Is that correct? The average speed at the end said 6.5.


I'm 20 and 185 lbs

Oh sorry 10 min 4.0 and 50 minutes running

Showed like
6.6 miles at the end

JenMc14

How long? How many miles? A general rule of thumb is 100 calories per mile. As a 130 pound female, I'm at less than that, you'd probably be slightly over that.

TeaBea

Depends .............. (likely no)

How much information do you plug into the machine?

Height, weight, age, gender, and exertion level are all "some" of the things that go into calorie burn calculations

The machine cannot know your exertion level .... it can only guess. Running at speed XX maybe hard for you .... but running at the same speed maybe easy for someone else.

Use a couple sources & pick the lowest number (or use a %) OR buy a heart rate monitor with a chest strap

hungrypotato

I was able to enter my age and weight into the machine

bfinup

I generally estimate 100 per mile.

MinnieInMaine

I think it might be a bit high but not off by too much. I'm 5'7" 175 pound female and can get up to 130 calories per miles. Since you're a guy you would typically burn more calorie than me but you may be more fit by the look of you and your ability to run faster than me so let's assume we'd burn about the same amount of calories per mile. Multiply that by 6.6 and you get 860.

I think you could feel comfortable logging at least 850 and be able to eat those calories back without worrying.

Emtabo01

My machine is always double what my HRM says. If the machine says I burned 500 calories, my HRM says I burned 250. Kind of sad when I bought my HRM and saw that

omma_to_3

Typically, no. They can be in the ball park though. Last night I did a 5 mile run on my new treadmill (which seems to be closer to my HRM calorie count than the old one). It does read my HRM data and presumably uses it in the calculation. But it's still off. HRM said 587 calories, treadmill said 668. Much closer than my old treadmill (which was the same brand and only a year old - this was a new replacement under the warranty).