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Arm bike?

sleepnaught
sleepnaught Posts: 5
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Anyone have a rough guess to how many calories the arm bike burns? It's something I've grown to love after an injury to my neck and shoulder. I don't find it in the database so have been using a guess of 10 cals per minute.

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  • data21
    data21 Posts: 2 Member
    The https://traininghardcore.com/arm-cycle-machine-review-are-they-worth-the-money/ page
    says 9 calories/minute. Good guess!
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,554 Member
    You could go by HR, if all else fails.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    I only do 10 cals per minute for super demanding circuit training/boot camp type stuff. Arms are small muscles and iss CSS ant imagine biting that much with an arm exercise. Depending on your size of course.
  • girlwithcurls2
    girlwithcurls2 Posts: 2,284 Member
    data21 wrote: »
    The https://traininghardcore.com/arm-cycle-machine-review-are-they-worth-the-money/ page
    says 9 calories/minute. Good guess!

    Another first poster who went back EIGHT YEARS to answer a question...
  • MikePfirrman
    MikePfirrman Posts: 3,307 Member
    edited January 2020
    lorrpb wrote: »
    I only do 10 cals per minute for super demanding circuit training/boot camp type stuff. Arms are small muscles and iss CSS ant imagine biting that much with an arm exercise. Depending on your size of course.

    I know this is an old thread but the Arm Bike is brutally hard. I row and do Assault Bike. The arm bike might be harder. It's incredibly demanding and your arms will be so sore you'll barely be able to lift them the next day. Great for shoulders. I avg around 12 calories a minute on the bike and more on the rower, so I have a pretty decent feel for what 10 calories a minute feels like. The arm bike might be closer to 15 if you really crank it.
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