Elliptical-683 calories, 6.23 miles. I did this in one hour.
Now, I have been told by several people as well as read that these machines are not correct when calculating calories. In fact, several people and articles have said that these machines, especially the elliptical, over calculate calories burned by 40%! So, freaked out and thinking I wasn't doing as much as I thought I was, I got a heart rate monitor that calculates calories burned..... and this is what I did:
According to my HR monitor, I burned 687 calories, 4 calories MORE than what the machine said I did. So...which should I go off of? I'm so confused. I was not expecting them to be so close. At first they were not. For the first 20 minutes of my workout there was a good 100 calorie difference between the two. But, I then raised the resistance on the machine and the HR monitor caught up to what the machine said as far as calories burned.
Any input anyone? I just want to make sure I'm actually burning these calories!!!
hi kelly!
ReplyDeletei would go with the watch for calories burned because then it's consistent thing counting calories for you. it's what you'll workout with regardless of what workout machine you're using.
good work!!! :)