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vmffaria · February 2016

Hey guys! Maybe someone can help me with something! :-) So the "Myfitnesspal" app tracks all my steps during the day, and it gives me calories of how much I burn. First, are those predictions actually accurate? For about every 10,000 steps you burn about 350 or something like that?

Secondly, sometimes I do activities like "dance" or spinning without my phone, but when I log the time, it reduces the calories from my steps, even though I wasn't using my phone while performing such activities. I usually just log "walking" again in order to put the calories back. Should I keep doing that?

Jypo · February 2016

Hi, considering walking is factored in to your total daily expenditure. Which on average depending on how active the person is, is about 200 - 500 calories.

The average person takes a stridge of about 2.3 feet.
In 2000 steps you will walk 1 mile.
In 10,000 steps you will walk 5 mile.
In my opinion a 5 mile walk can easily burn 350 calories.

About the reduction from steps after exercise, my guess would be it's a feature that is implemented due to a heart rate increase in the cardio reducing the effects of walking which is a slow steady pace cardio therefore after cardio you burn less calories while walking. I'm willing to bet I'm wrong if someone has a better answer.

vmffaria · February 2016

Thanks for the help! I'm a bit confused, wouldn't those calories already been burned? haha For example, if I walk 10,000 steps burn 350 calories. Then 2 hours later I go to dance class and burn another 500. The 350 calories from walking, although in a slow steady pace already has been burned, so why should the dance class affect it?

Jypo · February 2016

If thats the case, then i have no idea why it reduced your calories burned by steps, sorry.
Could be the app factoring that it thinks your steps were you dancing and reduced the amount of steps, i'm unsure.

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