At my gym at my university, the treadmills don't have a place you can enter your weight. So how can I find out the currect amount of calories I have burned??
I'm 19/f/130 lbs/5'5
I'm 19/f/130 lbs/5'5
Running on treadmill-currect calories?
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allcdnboy1
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well i guess that depends on the intensity of your run ... if you run at about a 10min/mile ... i'd guess around 6-700 cal/hour ...
Don't count on treadmills when counting calories
I've yet to learn of or use a treadmill that's intelligent enough to give an accurate calorie burn count -- no matter what the manufacterer claims. Even if your treadmill allowed you to enter your weight, age, and other factors that affect the amount of calories you burn, the precentages, according to numerous sources, are always inaccuarte. Sometimes there is a 50 percent difference (the machine claims you burned 300, but in reality, you've only burned 150 calories). If you are trying to lose weight, the higher estimate will throw you off. Considering this, whenever I run on the treadmill, I divide the end result of burned calories in half. If the treadmill's computer reports that I burned 600 calories in one hour, I feel safe in assuming I burned at least 300 calories an hour. Since people tend to under-estimate the amount of calories they consume in a day, I figure it's safe to also under-estimate the amount of calories that you burn during a work-out. The way your clothes feel is a better indicator than any computer.
I've yet to learn of or use a treadmill that's intelligent enough to give an accurate calorie burn count -- no matter what the manufacterer claims. Even if your treadmill allowed you to enter your weight, age, and other factors that affect the amount of calories you burn, the precentages, according to numerous sources, are always inaccuarte. Sometimes there is a 50 percent difference (the machine claims you burned 300, but in reality, you've only burned 150 calories). If you are trying to lose weight, the higher estimate will throw you off. Considering this, whenever I run on the treadmill, I divide the end result of burned calories in half. If the treadmill's computer reports that I burned 600 calories in one hour, I feel safe in assuming I burned at least 300 calories an hour. Since people tend to under-estimate the amount of calories they consume in a day, I figure it's safe to also under-estimate the amount of calories that you burn during a work-out. The way your clothes feel is a better indicator than any computer.
If you take two people of equal body weight and have them run at the same pace the number of calories they burn cna be radially different, so no treadmill can do better than a rough estimate. The differences are due to things like stride length. body fat percentage, fitness level, etc. A very well conditioned athelete will use less calories at the same pace than a out of shape person, however the well conditioned individual will actually burn more calories after he stops running than the poorly conditioned person due to a higher base metabolism rate, which stays elevated longer after exercise. So the biggest calorie burning effect of exercise is not the calories you burn during the exercise, but the additional calories you burn after you stop the exercise.
allcdnboy1
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For people with a good diet and good health level, you can burn calories up to 2 hours *after* the workout. A book that I started reading (still want to finish) called "Ready, Set, Go! - Synergy Fitness" talks all about maximizing the calories that you burn after your workout. Apparently, you can stop this process cold by eating complex-sugars ...