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is my exercise bike telling the truth?? lol

yayforbaby
yayforbaby Posts: 3
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
hey! i'm kind of new this site, but i love it! i had a baby on Christmas day :bigsmile: and gained 80 lbs!! :grumble: so far i've lost 52 lbs, but have a ways ago to reach my goal so i recently bought an exercise bike and it has been so awesome except for one thing.... i am not convinced that i am really burning the amount of calories it says i am. if i work out for 20 minutes i can burn up too 300 calories if i really put myself into it... does that sound right? it almost sounds to good to be true, but if it is, i'd love to know for sure!

thanks!! :happy:

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  • yayforbaby
    yayforbaby Posts: 3
    hey! i'm kind of new this site, but i love it! i had a baby on Christmas day :bigsmile: and gained 80 lbs!! :grumble: so far i've lost 52 lbs, but have a ways ago to reach my goal so i recently bought an exercise bike and it has been so awesome except for one thing.... i am not convinced that i am really burning the amount of calories it says i am. if i work out for 20 minutes i can burn up too 300 calories if i really put myself into it... does that sound right? it almost sounds to good to be true, but if it is, i'd love to know for sure!

    thanks!! :happy:
  • pauladavies86
    pauladavies86 Posts: 83 Member
    It's probably not accurate. I was curious about the same thing (except I use a total body crossramp & treadmill) and I was always getting around 600 calories burned when I was on the crossramp for 45 & the treadmill for 15. I got a heart rate moniter that also counts calories burned and in the same session I burned 472 calories. That's a pretty huge difference! I know it's different for different kinds of equipment but generally they're not super accurate because they don't constantly measure your heart rate and exertion. If you can find one a HRM is the way to go. I LOVE knowing how much I'm burning and when I should be stepping it up!
  • jadaigle
    jadaigle Posts: 161 Member
    Make sure you have input your correct information into the bike computer: Your age and weight. If you haven't the computer generally defaults to a male of average weight. That might be causing it. I find that when I set my treadmill to my information, it generally matches what my heart rate monitor says.
  • ohthatbambi
    ohthatbambi Posts: 1,098 Member
    Best bet is to get a heart rate monitor that you program your gender, weight and height. It tracks your heart rate and figures out calories burned based on all the above. I just got one and so far everything I have been logging in here has been a little higher than what the hrm tells me.
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