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BlackeBird72
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I have an adult sized big wheel. I use it for exercise. You can see what they look like at www.highrollerusa.com. How do I figure out how many calories it burns? I picked the random number of 100 today because they wouldn’t let me leave it blank.
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Probably just using the cycling entries under cardio will give you a number to start working with.
Nice ride
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Googled it and now I have Big Wheel envy. Middlehaitch has excellent advice, as always. Enjoy!0
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If you really wanted an accurate number a power meter would be the way to go but you could easily spend more than what the bike cost so that might not be a practical solution
If you wanted a reasonable estimate perhaps consider something along the line of a Garmin GPS watch / HRM which would track distance traveled, speed and HR (even though HR by itself does not correlate with calories expended). Personally I found that my Garmin estimated high compared to when I started power based training.
A commonly used estimate is 100 cal per 5km (3.1 miles) which is probably close enough.
Those look like fun!
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