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Body Monitor for Biking

wendamabelle
wendamabelle Posts: 25 Member
edited January 25 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm sort of new to all this. My main forms of exercise are either my bike or my stationary bike.

I was looking into FitBit but I was told it wouldn't do a great job of tracking my exercise as a biker. Is there something on the market that is better suited to biking? I'd love to get a good idea of my calories burned during a day.

Thanks.

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  • spfldpam
    spfldpam Posts: 738 Member
    I use the free phone app Endomondo that can be linked to MFP. I have a fitbit one but it doesn't really track biking so I use Endomondo. I also have tried Mapmyride free app but like Endomondo best. It tracks your bike route, cals burned, mph, and other stuff. There have been a couple times that I must have accidently turned it off while biking and it didn't get the entire ride but other than that I really like it.
    I manually put my cals burned into MFP if the Endomondo app doesn't sync to MFP for that ride due to me accidently shutting it off while cyclying.
  • wendamabelle
    wendamabelle Posts: 25 Member
    Thanks I will check out Endomondo. I have looked at it before and the calories burned were way higher than MapMyWalk. That's why I wanted something to tell me what I am really burning.
  • rassha01
    rassha01 Posts: 534 Member
    I use the free phone app Endomondo that can be linked to MFP. I have a fitbit one but it doesn't really track biking so I use Endomondo. I also have tried Mapmyride free app but like Endomondo best. It tracks your bike route, cals burned, mph, and other stuff. There have been a couple times that I must have accidently turned it off while biking and it didn't get the entire ride but other than that I really like it.
    I manually put my cals burned into MFP if the Endomondo app doesn't sync to MFP for that ride due to me accidently shutting it off while cyclying.
    I also use Endomondo and a bluetooth heart rate monitor with it. The heart rate monitor will track your calories burned more accurately.
  • ayankeefan51
    ayankeefan51 Posts: 135 Member
    My Polar FT7 works great when I'm spinning and is accurate.
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