Burning Cals?
drugrug
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I've been running up and down my stairs for 15 minutes a day (I do 4 sets of 15 for a total of 60 and I stop for water). When I type this in the exercise data base it says I'm burning 204 calories. The workout is pretty intense (for me) but I don't feel like I'm burning anywhere near 200 calories. At the gym it seems to take me way longer to burn this much. Am I really burning off this many?
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are you saying you only go up and down a total of 60 steps in 15 min? i can get 150-200 cals on the stepmill for 15min, but that involves intervals of 45sec at 80/min and 45sec at 160/min, so im going up like 2400 steps total in that time0
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Yeah. It is literally only running up and down my stairs 60 times0
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I think the exercise burns on here are good for walking and running but for anything else they are a quite a bit overestimated. Use the gym numbers to estimate it better and just change the calories on your entry0
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the actuel calorie burn for your body does not change regardless of what it says on here.0
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If you have a hrm you can check the numbers with what you calculate from it against what you get here. It is hard sometimes to gauge the number of calories burned by a calculator alone. When I do the arc machine at the gym(stair climber basically) I can burn 11 calories a minute and I am 137lbs and exercise all the time though and really have to push....it depends on your weight how much you can easily burn, I used to be able to do way more calories in my bigger days. Shape magazine has a calculator on their site that estimates a bit under and that I have found is closer to what my hrm says I burn.0
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The calories on here are really just general estimates. Your burn is going to depend on more than just your height, weight, and age.
Three possible suggestions:
1. Buy a heart-rate monitor for a better way to track calories burned.
2. Be conservative about eating back your exercise cals. Start eating back only 50%, wait a few weeks and then check your scale (or whatever measurement you are using). Adjust as necessary.
3. Calculate TDEE and eat at a percentage lower than that.0 -
Just keep moving!!! Any calories burned are better than sitting at the desk or on the couch!! Walk, run, walk steps anything. You are doing great and I am going to skip all elevators and walk steps. Thanks.0
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