Calories burned discrepancies?

woollyelly
woollyelly Posts: 22 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
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So what's that about? I'm a bit lighter, we've both chosen from the database, not added an exercise-makes no sense to me :s

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  • ohmscheeks
    ohmscheeks Posts: 840 Member
    *shrugs* As you noted, it asks for both weight and duration. It made your burn rate (calorie per minute) 2.4~ higher than hers. The general feedback on the exercise database is that it is not very accurate...
  • woollyelly
    woollyelly Posts: 22 Member
    Consistently inaccurate is one thing, but seemingly just making it up as it goes along...?
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    woollyelly wrote: »
    Consistently inaccurate is one thing, but seemingly just making it up as it goes along...?

    for starters you are comparing 120 minutes of gardening to 65 minutes...for starters.
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    Age will also make a difference in how many calories one burns.
  • woollyelly
    woollyelly Posts: 22 Member
    edited June 2015
    Obviously! But half mine is significantly more than hers in calories while equal in time. As ohmscheeks worked out, a rate of 2.4x higher calories for me. Makes me cautious of using calories from exercise if it can be that way off.
    She is older than me, is that more or fewer calories?
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    edited June 2015
    The simplest explanation that comes to my mind is that she changed the number, based on a heart rate monitor (which would not be accurate for gardening, but many people don't know that) or an activity monitor like a FitBit.

    After all, you can always change the number that the database generates. If I use MFP's database to enter hiking, I usually decrease its number by about 40%, because it gives ridiculously high estimates for hiking.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    When I look at that for me I get the following:

    Gardening General 120 mins:541
    Gardening General 65 mins: 293
    Gardening General 60 mins: 270...

    I am 5 ft 7 and 149lbs...

    So for 5mins I get 23 calories...

    you need to compare apples to apples...
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    woollyelly wrote: »
    She is older than me, is that more or fewer calories?

    I believe one burns fewer calories as one gets older.

  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    woollyelly wrote: »
    As ohmscheeks worked out, a rate of 2.4x higher calories for me.

    No, it's only 1.7x.

    How much is "a bit" lighter?
  • woollyelly
    woollyelly Posts: 22 Member
    bwogilvie wrote: »
    The simplest explanation that comes to my mind is that she changed the number, based on a heart rate monitor (which would not be accurate for gardening, but many people don't know that) or an activity monitor like a FitBit.

    After all, you can always change the number that the database generates. If I use MFP's database to enter hiking, I usually decrease its number by about 40%, because it gives ridiculously high estimates for hiking.
    Ah, she does use a Fitbit, that might explain it then :)
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