Map My Walk

I do when I walk outside in the Summer - I really liked it because I got to challenge myself to beat my own time. Plus, with the accuracy of GPS nowadays, I'd go with the app.

It takes elevation change in to account. I find it to be pretty accurate. I've been using it almost 2 years.

gkauf744 wrote: »

I find it easier to walk/run faster on the ground than on the treadmill. I don't exactly know why.

I know it's more enjoyable! Scenary with no handlebars and fresh air?! What more could you ask for? ( besides beautiful weather to walk in year round)

I've been tracking my calories burned using a pedometer for years, and then tried Map My Hike (or walk, whatever), and felt that it overestimated my calories burned by A LOT, like over twice as many. I don't sync the app with MFP, I enter my exercise separately, and almost always enter about 1/3 of the calories the Map My XXX calculates.

I use Mapmyrun, and i think it's the same thing. I hardly run anyways, I always walk, and you can use it for both.
I like it overall but it's frustrating that I walk in a straight line, yet it shows I'm walking in a wavy or zigazag-type pattern, which I know adds more calories to it. It synchs my workout to MFP, but I usually delete it and reenter it with a lower speed. For example when I walk fast, it's about 4 mph, but it says I walked 5 mph, which I know is not true. So I enter the minutes and the speed I know is correct.
But overall I still use it because I don't know of any other that would be better.

I use MapMyRun (or mapometer) .co.uk for a couple of years, mainly to get the distance rather than calorie burn as I find them a little on the high side. However I suppose they are as accurate as any other method of calculation! I work on 80-100 cals per mile for running and 60-70 cals per mile for walking, both depending on how much effort I feel I've put in, how much I've sweated etc.

I also use it and have found that there is a big discrepancy between MMW and MFP. I hope that MMW is accurate (It will make me feel a lot better). Sometimes I adjust the calories burned, but for the most part, I just let it sync with MFP.

Kgerber777 wrote: »

I was just wondering if anyone else uses this app? When I use this app I feel like it says I burned a lot more calories than if I had used my treadmill (to tell me the speed I walked) and then entered the info via MFP. Just wondering if I am the only one? it may also be the treadmill I use not displaying an accredit speed (it is older so not out of the question)?

All the MapMyFitness apps are inaccurate. If you email them they will send you a complicated way to recalibrate it, but they obviously haven't done anything to correct it.

Get a pedometer instead for steps or use an activity tracker, although activity trackers are pretty optimistic about how much you burn as well. The technology is still not really there.

I use my hrm.