Calculating Excercise calories

Dreamerryu27
Dreamerryu27 Posts: 281 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I am looking for a more efficient way to calculate the calories I burn during exercise.
Can anyone help? Heart Rate monitors? Etc?

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  • thoess
    thoess Posts: 16
    I just use a simple way
    Hard workout -= 10 calories per minute
    So, if you do, say an insanity workout for 40 minutes, the most that you will burn is 400 calories.
    Medium rate Walking = say 5 calories per minute

    And then I just kinda judge everything else in-between

    Ya - it is not a heart rate monitor or anything, but it is what I use - and I figure that it is not that hard off
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    Heart rate monitors are great - but I lots weight last year using MFP's numbers or the numbers from Runkeeper app on my iPHone.

    Plus I use the numbers above as a guide for other activities - 10 cals/minute for steady running, 5 cals/minute for brisk walking and I use this as a guide to estimate cals for other activities.

    Bear in mind that you will never have a truly accurate number, even a heart rate monitor is making an estimate, it just has a bit more data to base it on.
  • aligisme
    aligisme Posts: 9 Member
    Definitely buy a heart rate monitor! I can't work out without my Polar HR watch. I've been so surprised by how much certain exercises really get my heart rate going to burn more calrories. I can burn as many calories now doing weights that really exerting myself on the elliptical.

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