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Calories burned

SheriffMichelle
SheriffMichelle Posts: 26 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Whenever I go to the gym and use the elliptical, bike, or treadmill the calories burned listed is always way different from on here. For example, at the gym last night I did 30 minutes on a bike on a semi high weight and it said I burned 175 calories. When I entered it in on here it said I burned ~330. That's a huge difference. Which one is more accurate? So far I've been going off of the gym equipment. However the gym equipment at the rec I go to is *kitten* and it wouldn't surprise me if it was wrong.

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  • MsAYB
    MsAYB Posts: 4 Member
    I use what my gym equipment calculates. I have to manually adjust this app each entry.
  • Amanda4change
    Amanda4change Posts: 620 Member
    I use a HRM, though I've heard that the MFP estimated burns are very high. The usual advice is to cut MFP estimate in half (which would be what you got from the machine).
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Thus people only eat back a portion of the burns, because they're not accurate.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    You likely overestimated your intensity when you entered it into MFP.
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