How can you figure out how many calories you burn at the gym?!
Question: When you're on the bike, eliptical or the treadmill, it will tell you approximately how many calories you've burned from your workout. What about when you do other things?
(The inner & outter thigh machines, arm machines etc.)
Answers: When you're on the bike, eliptical or the treadmill, it will tell you approximately how many calories you've burned from your workout. What about when you do other things?
(The inner & outter thigh machines, arm machines etc.)
Hey, if you go to self.com, i think they have a section where you can calculate calories burned during your workouts. I see your problem..im always trying to estimate how much iv burned when i use different machines and stuff. But i think at the end of the day the results come when we see how great we look! :)
Try looking it up on the internet .....some sites have really good calorie counters but you just have to find the one that has all the stuff you need on it
good luck xxx
Not a lot.
You really can't. The numbers on the machines are at best rough approximations. Its relatively easy to measure the amount of horsepower or watts that it takes to move the pedals on a bike or elliptical machine. Throw in elapsed time, and its a direct conversion to calories, which are a unit of measure for heat energy.
HOWEVER.
That doesn't account for your personal mechanical and digestive efficiency. How mechanically efficient is your stride or pedal stroke? How well does your digestive system extract calories from food? What's your diet like - you extract calories better from some foods than others? There's a huge difference between calories in the mouth and horsepower output of the legs. Total efficiency of the human body over all these conversions is only around 20%, and varies significantly from one person to the next.
If you know your VO2 max, you can come a little closer by measuring heart rate. Burning calories (fuel) requires oxygen, and your cardiovascular system delivers the oxygen so you could estimate calories that way. Still, you have digestive efficiency to account for.
As for weight machines and such, that's even worse. The activities are intermittent, and the intervals vary from one person to the next, and even in the same person, from one day to the next.
The only way I can see to come up with an approximation is to calculate joules of work required to lift X amount of weight Y distance Z times, then use the 20% efficiency figure. Rough, very rough, but its something.
Bottom line, I think its a waste of time to evaluate your workouts in terms of calories. Hopefully you're working out for reasons other than that. Going through all the nonsense just to counteract meals seems depressing.
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Edit: I'm sorry you don't care for accuracy. After years spent in the field of test and measurement, I do. If you actually read my answer, I told you how to come up with a number if you wanted to make the effort.
Look up on the internet, look at the machine display or you can buy something that will count calories not matter what your doing. Good Luck.