Is the fitness calculator accurate?
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CharBoneO
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I played basketball yesterday for 90 minutes. Do you really burn almost 1100 calories playing basketball for 90 minutes?
This seems extraordinarily high to me because that means I basically had to eat twice what I am allotted in a day and it was hard to choke down enough food to come close to even.
This seems extraordinarily high to me because that means I basically had to eat twice what I am allotted in a day and it was hard to choke down enough food to come close to even.
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Like any calorie calculator, it's an estimate. It will be right for some people, off for others.
IMO, any time a calculator gives you a burn of more than 10 cals per minute, I get suspicious. It's certainly possible to do, but I wouldn't automatically trust a calculator in that case.
So for you, 90 minutes @ 10 cals per minute would be 900 cals. Is 1100 possible? Absolutely. Is it likely? Hard to say, but I'm skeptical.0 -
I will be sure to keep the 10 cals/min in mind from now on, I like that estimate.0
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