Great (Easy) Websites for Estimating Calories Burned!!

katyconser
katyconser Posts: 92 Member
edited November 9 in Fitness and Exercise
i just found a couple great sites and figured i'd share! you just enter your weight and the length of time you did an exercise (use the best match... there's a super long list at each site) and it gives you a pretty good estimate of the calories YOU burned! i've been having trouble with MFP's exercise database not being as comprehensive as the food database (plus, your calories burned vary based on weight as well as other factors). i plan to use this to get a good idea of where i stand :)

http://www.myoptumhealth.com/portal/ManageMyHealth/Calories+Burned+Calculator

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

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  • pholbert
    pholbert Posts: 575 Member
    Want to check them out.
  • MaximalLife
    MaximalLife Posts: 2,447 Member
    i just found a couple great sites and figured i'd share! you just enter your weight and the length of time you did an exercise (use the best match... there's a super long list at each site) and it gives you a pretty good estimate of the calories YOU burned! i've been having trouble with MFP's exercise database not being as comprehensive as the food database (plus, your calories burned vary based on weight as well as other factors). i plan to use this to get a good idea of where i stand :)

    http://www.myoptumhealth.com/portal/ManageMyHealth/Calories+Burned+Calculator

    http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc
    The top one is spot on - bottom link rates burns a little high.
    That's just my take as I have a hard time finding my "zone" with these standard calculators.

    Everybody should be experimenting and finding what numbers work best.
  • ImSoPerfectlyFlawed
    ImSoPerfectlyFlawed Posts: 127 Member
    Thanks!
  • LonghornGirlNC
    LonghornGirlNC Posts: 28 Member
    Bumping so I can get to it. Thanks!
  • kammy92
    kammy92 Posts: 408 Member
    :bigsmile: Bump!!! TY!
  • KeepGoingRhonda
    KeepGoingRhonda Posts: 527 Member
    thanks!
  • ShalisaClam
    ShalisaClam Posts: 190
    BUMP
  • katyconser
    katyconser Posts: 92 Member
    of course, good point. this will do until i get my fitbit :)
  • Xandralexa
    Xandralexa Posts: 87
    Hey, thanks for sharing these links. I've bookmarked them.
  • firesoforion
    firesoforion Posts: 1,017 Member
    Very cool. Thanks for the links!
  • carolemack
    carolemack Posts: 1,276 Member
    Thanks for the links! :flowerforyou:
  • dixonal
    dixonal Posts: 4 Member
    The top one looks exactly like the exercise database MFP already has...
  • runs4zen
    runs4zen Posts: 769 Member
    The top one calculated the same number of calories that MFP did for the run I had today. The second one calculated the calories burned at almost twice the number of MFP and the first calculator. Great idea, but sort of added confusion. My HRM watch generally matches MFP within 10 calories.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    Yup, these look pretty much like MFP numbers to me... except the second one doesn't have many different running speeds so it wasn't much use for me.
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