How accurate are MFP exercise calories?
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Lol, This for sure!I wonder why folks think a HRM calorie reading is accurate. How do you know?
Because there's quite a large body of science establishing the relationship between MHR, VO2 max and calories burned during exercise and regressing predictive formulae from large samples of actual experimental observations. There's also a lot empirical confirmation of the math by a lot of HRM users out there, from casual dieters all the way up to professional athletes.0 -
I cycle quite a bit and use my garmin 405cx to track distance etc. If I am wearing the heart rate monitor the calorie burn it estimates is about a third of what it estimates when I am not wearing it. With the hrm it can tell how hard I am working because all 60 minute rides are not the same because of wind, hills, speed etc.
Incidentally the estimated burn without hrm is quite close to mfp's0 -
bump!
for example: if the arc cybex trainer says I burned 400 calories, MFP says I burned like 322. Should I count MFP or the machine?0 -
i've actually found that i'm burning more calories than what MFP says. during an hour of zumba i burn 580 calories (i also push myself extremely hard). MFP says I only burn 511.
This has happened with a few other exercises as well.
Hope this helps!0 -
I've checked 2 different calorie burning calculators online, my treadmill, and the app RunKeeper....
MFP was lower than all of those.... so I use MFP. *shrugs*
Like most things in the world, it works for some and doesn't for others I guess.
This was very similar to my experience, back when I logged any exercise calories at all. Now I don't bother with that and try to only eat maintenance calories for my goal weight (only 20-ish pounds away), regardless of exercise/activity. This may not work for anybody else, but even though it's very slow, it has been working for me, without all the number crunching I used to do before.
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