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Biking?

Elisabeth101
Elisabeth101 Posts: 28 Member
edited January 31 in Fitness and Exercise
On the MFP biking for 45 mins u burn 456 calories..Is this accurate or anything because I've heard on other websites u dont burn as much as u do on MFP..I dont have a calorie watch thing to track it

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  • heidicalif
    heidicalif Posts: 114 Member
    I use http://www.bicycling.com/caloriemain for biking. I have also read that MFP gives high numbers. For other exercises I often google up a few different calculators and take the average.
  • peeaanuut
    peeaanuut Posts: 359 Member
    its really about your intensity. But in generally, I log food high and exercise low.
  • Elisabeth101
    Elisabeth101 Posts: 28 Member
    Oh that's awesome site. Is there an app for it? Plus i dont really know how fast I'm going lol like my heart rate is up and I'm sweating so idk
  • holli_walker
    holli_walker Posts: 109 Member
    I have a heart rate monitor and also enter my workouts to this website http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc. It has always been very close to my heart rate monitor. hope this helps :)
  • Elisabeth101
    Elisabeth101 Posts: 28 Member
    What kind of heart rate monitor do u have? Does it tell u how many calories u burned also?
  • holli_walker
    holli_walker Posts: 109 Member
    Yes it does. I have a polar ft4. But I have entered my weight and time spent doing the specific exercise to that website to see close my heart rate monitor was. I believe the most ever it was off was by 10 calories(website ran a 10 less than my hrm). So not perfect but way closer than myfitnesspal calculator. I have compared my polar to that website I gave you at least 40+.
  • stephenszymanski
    stephenszymanski Posts: 114 Member
    MFP seems high when estimating cals burned. Last time I did biking, it was over by about 30.
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