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Exercise/calories used

jamais14
jamais14 Posts: 8 Member
edited January 4 in Introduce Yourself
I am really getting into using this app, but I do find it confusing ab out how many calories I burn every day.

Treadmill - 15 mins 150 calories used - no matter how fast or slow I go

Stationary trim bike - no resistance at all average speed - 1 hours pedalling 631 calories used. Find that hard to believe, so log 252 calories,which is in the database.

Which one is correct tho, it really is a big difference between the 2.

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  • HelenaMH
    HelenaMH Posts: 40
    I use stuff I find on google to calculate - adding my age and weight into the factor. Unless you're wearing a heart rate monitor it won't ever be spot on but yeah, walking for 15 minutes won't burn that many cals unless it's uphill and you're going super fast.
  • realme56
    realme56 Posts: 1,093 Member
    Heart rate monitor will help, you can't use the machine numbers.
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