Cardio machine vs fitness app

bigpa2
bigpa2 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Can anyone tell me which one is more accurate, the calorie numbers a cardio machine shows or the numbers the various fitness apps display?

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  • CincyNeid
    CincyNeid Posts: 1,249 Member
    I would trust a Fitness App more. Just because they typically ask for Height, Weight, age, and sex. Where as the Fitness Machines just ask for Weight, and extremely far and few between height.

    All of those play on your caloric burn per hour.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Depends on what cardio machine, depends on the exercise being done - some machines are extremely accurate, some are wildly inaccurate.

    Would the app know your power output? Which some machines measure.
  • gettingittogether15
    gettingittogether15 Posts: 49 Member
    I would trust the app before the machines but if you can get yourself a heart rate monitor that counts calories that would be the best for accuracy.

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