Calories burned doing cardio?

ambernicholewms
ambernicholewms Posts: 37
in Fitness and Exercise
I did 26 minutes on the treadmill and burned 100 calories and done 15 on the elliptical and burned 100 calories. Could this be close to being right? I know nothing is accurate but before I would burn a lot more.

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  • hpj17
    hpj17 Posts: 9
    It depends on your speed for those 26 minutes on the treadmill, and MFP will tell you how many calories you burn on the elliptical for the amount of time you exercise on it. They're all approximations, and everyone burns a different amount of calories.

    I don't think 100 calories for each of those sounds too right.
  • hpj17
    hpj17 Posts: 9
    15 minutes on the elliptical, according to MFP: 162 calories burned.
  • frugalmomsrock
    frugalmomsrock Posts: 1,123
    It really depends on how hard you push. How did you get the number?

    I went to the gym today, and I did 50 minutes of elliptical. The first 25 were HIIT, the last 25 were at about 75% of my HR. My HRM said I burned 489 (surprisingly, mfp's number was only slightly higher, at 502), but my machine was WAY off--it said 827!

    (I weigh 147-ish, btw, since that definitely matters in how much you burn)
  • amymrls
    amymrls Posts: 1,673 Member
    depends on how much you eigh and effort that is why I wear HRM

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