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MrLoverman
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How can I figure out how many calories I am buring when I do exercise? Is there a machine that measures your heart rate and from that you can then tell how many calories you have burnt or do you have to go for a more gerneral:
Length of exercise + intensity of exercise etc, and then from there you can roughly work out how many calories you have burnt off.
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there is no easy way.
and its pretty much irrelevant anyway |
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MrLoverman
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| mattr wrote: |
there is no easy way.
and its pretty much irrelevant anyway |
Why is it irrelevant?
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| MrLoverman wrote: |
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there is no easy way.
and its pretty much irrelevant anyway |
Why is it irrelevant? |
erm, because you are a beginner, it requires a fair bit of equipment that you don't need, and you don't do enough training to justify it. Just train more and eat less. |
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MrLoverman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| mattr wrote: |
| MrLoverman wrote: |
| mattr wrote: |
there is no easy way.
and its pretty much irrelevant anyway |
Why is it irrelevant? |
erm, because you are a beginner, it requires a fair bit of equipment that you don't need, and you don't do enough training to justify it. Just train more and eat less. |
That seems fair enough. I think a simple heart rate monitor would suffice for me then wouldn't it, and the duration of exercise + rate of exercise and from that just work out roughly how many calories I am burning.
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There are graphs and tables on the internet that give you a rough idea of how many calories an hours cycling will burn.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| MrLoverman wrote: |
| I think a simple heart rate monitor would suffice for me then wouldn't it |
Yep. There is a good chart on Polar's website which compares model to model. Decide what you want it to do and spend as much as you want/little as you need and go from there.
Garmin GPS systems aren't well known for the accuracy of their calorie counters. |
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| lets be honest, none of the calorie counters on any device or website, short of a complete lab set up, give anymore than a vague guess about what you might have burnt off........ |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe not, but an estimate based on some information is better than a guesstimate based on none |
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MrLoverman
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| lets be honest, none of the calorie counters on any device or website, short of a complete lab set up, give anymore than a vague guess about what you might have burnt off........ |
how 'hopeless' are they? Are they about 20%, 30%, 50% accurate?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| MrLoverman wrote: |
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| lets be honest, none of the calorie counters on any device or website, short of a complete lab set up, give anymore than a vague guess about what you might have burnt off........ |
how 'hopeless' are they? Are they about 20%, 30%, 50% accurate? |
Depends how accurate the data you put into them is. But as a guide you won't be far out with plus or minus 20%.
But why does it matter, Eat less, train more, or vice versa, train more and eat less. Calorie counting is the sort of thing that paranoid teenage girls get up to. Or people trying to crash *CENSORED*. |
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The VR approved measuring unit is the "avit". As long as you burn more avits than you eat then jobsagoodun. The key to this is to avitlarge when you go out on the bike, but don't avitlarge when you go to the burger shop.
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| Billy Boy wrote: |
| The VR approved measuring unit is the "avit". As long as you burn more avits than you eat then jobsagoodun. The key to this is to avitlarge when you go out on the bike, but don't avitlarge when you go to the burger shop. |
So you don't use the Rosemary Conely Portion Pots then? 
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| KJ wrote: |
| Billy Boy wrote: |
| The VR approved measuring unit is the "avit". As long as you burn more avits than you eat then jobsagoodun. The key to this is to avitlarge when you go out on the bike, but don't avitlarge when you go to the burger shop. |
So you don't use the Rosemary Conely Portion Pots then? |
Does anyone with a double digit IQ? |
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| mattr wrote: |
| KJ wrote: |
| Billy Boy wrote: |
| The VR approved measuring unit is the "avit". As long as you burn more avits than you eat then jobsagoodun. The key to this is to avitlarge when you go out on the bike, but don't avitlarge when you go to the burger shop. |
So you don't use the Rosemary Conely Portion Pots then? |
Does anyone with a double digit IQ? |
Nah  but you have to admire a woman who made a hospital gall bladder *CENSORED* sheet into a multi million pound business.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| KJ wrote: |
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| So you don't use the Rosemary Conely Portion Pots then? |
Does anyone with a double digit IQ? |
Nah but you have to admire a woman who made a hospital gall bladder *CENSORED* sheet into a multi million pound business. |
Either that or despair at the suckers who bought into it. |
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you can work it out to a high degree of accuracy with either a decent power meter (SRM, Power Tap, etc) or www.analyticcycling.com (or knowing the equations that underpin this site). However, with analytic it's very much a case of being able to input correct data about yourself that may not be readily available (e.g. knowing CdA).
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Unfortunately the OP hasn't worked out which end of the bike you sit on yet, so analytic or a powertap might be stretching things a bit.
Good luck Mr Shabbaman. Billy Boy has shown you the way. |
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| MrLoverman wrote: |
| How can I figure out how many calories I am buring when I do exercise? |
Why do you want to know? What use will you make of the information?
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| Roy Gardiner wrote: |
| MrLoverman wrote: |
| How can I figure out how many calories I am buring when I do exercise? |
Why do you want to know? What use will you make of the information? |
Probably to justify pie intake. |
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