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peanut7butter
peanut7butter Posts: 45
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The elliptical I use at the gym lets you put in your weight and age, and at the end of my 45 minute workout (where I do intervals of incline and resistance) it says I burn around 420 calories. MFP's elliptical tracker says I burn about 380. Do you think my elliptical machine is more accurate because it can *kitten* how fast/what resistance I am on? I'd love to hear your feedback

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  • peanut7butter
    peanut7butter Posts: 45
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    bump :)
  • DavidMartinez2
    DavidMartinez2 Posts: 840 Member
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    I wouldn't believe either of them. After I started wearing a Polar watch w/HR monitor I found the machines were over-estimating my calorie burn.
  • Chainbreaker
    Chainbreaker Posts: 124 Member
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    We always want to be as accurate as possible but in the end the difference you were referring to was only a 40 cal spread. You could just split it. Still, once you can get a device to better track this your estimates will become even more accurate. Good luck!

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