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Calorie burn accuracy

dointhis4me
dointhis4me Posts: 52 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So I found a seemingly reliable formula online for calories burned of:
"For females, the formula is (0.074 x age + 0.4472 x heart rate - 0.05741 x weight - 20.4022) x time / 4.184."
"for males with the equation (0.2017 x age + 0.6309 x heart rate - 0.09036 x weight -- 55.0969) x time / 4.184."

According to this formula I burned about 1300 calories walking 120 mins at 3.5 mph for 6.6 miles. But when I put it into mfp, I get around 550.

What's going on here? Upon further research I see formulas that put me at around 700-800. I'm so confused, and now a little disheartened. When you guys workout on here with body bugs or hrm, where do you see your numbers in comparison to mfp?

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  • sdevan45
    sdevan45 Posts: 74 Member
    At the pace you reported, it would not be unusual to burn about 5 calories a minute. That gets you to 600 calories for two hours. I think your formula is overestimating your burn. Even at 4 calories a minute, you're still at 480 calories for the two hour walk.
  • ladykaisa
    ladykaisa Posts: 236 Member
    bump for later
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