How accurate are the calorie trackers on treadmills?

[Rawtune Jr]

If they are, I burned 550 Calories in an hour.....:ohmy:

If i do 2 hours a night, plus a good diet, its a wrap :yes:

These tradmills at my school gym are the shyt :king:

[acri1]

If you put in your real weight, it's a good approximation. Of course everybody's body works differently so it won't be completely accurate.

[GetThisMoney]

why was my response deleted?:confused:

[andre patton]

they're horribly inaccurate.

your average adult male burns about 100 calories for every mile jogged (6mph)

the faster you run, or the more you weigh (basic physics, takes more energy to move more mass), the more calories you will burn.

[acri1]

they're horribly inaccurate.

your average adult male burns about 100 calories for every mile jogged (6mph)

the faster you run, or the more you weigh (basic physics, takes more energy to move more mass), the more calories you will burn.

They're about as accurate as they can be.

Consider that people of all shapes, genders, metabolisms, and sizes might use the treadmill...it would be ridiculous to expect them to be completely accurate.

When you take that into account they're not that inaccurate. Depending on how fast you go they record about 100 calories per mile (a little more or less depending on how fast you ran the mile)

[andre patton]

They're about as accurate as they can be.
Consider that people of all shapes, genders, metabolisms, and sizes might use the treadmill...it would be ridiculous to expect them to be completely accurate.
When you take that into account they're not that inaccurate. Depending on how fast you go they record about 100 calories per mile (a little more or less depending on how fast you ran the mile)

the thing i've noticed tho is that the companies that make treadmills, stationary bikes, ellipticals, gazelles, whatever gimmick on tv, is that they have no incentive to be accurate. its like they all advertise to burn calories more efficient then this or that, and they throw up a bunch of charts and graphs so people think its fact, when thats not the case.

but me and you already realize that. we're both throwin up the same number...100 cals/mile is a good standard. sometimes i have to over generalize in this forum just to prove my point to those who think just cause they get on the stationary bike for 2 miles they must've burned 500 calories or somethin crazy.

a few other fun facts for those those trying to lose weight:


rule of thumb, the more exhausted you feel afterwards the workout, the more calories you burned. you would think this goes without saying, but im saying it anyway. 2 miles on the elliptical is NOT the same as 2 miles on the treadmill.
10- 15 minutes of high intensity interval training will burn more calories over a 24 hour period then a 30 minute jog on the treadmill. the thing about HIIT is it "tricks" your body to continually burn calories even after you leave the gym, as opposed to anything else. so run as hard as you can.
lifting heavy weights burns way more calories then your cardio workout of the same timeframe. then the muscle you build from lifting weights is extremely dense, making your frame more attractive...and its also very stingy with calories...so the food you eat feeds your muscle first instead of storing it as fat.

[Spliff Star]

^^
I wouldn't say "tricks " the body. More like the body spends the rest of the day expending energy to recover from the ass-kicking you gave it.

[beaniemac]

the thing i've noticed tho is that the companies that make treadmills, stationary bikes, ellipticals, gazelles, whatever gimmick on tv, is that they have no incentive to be accurate. its like they all advertise to burn calories more efficient then this or that, and they throw up a bunch of charts and graphs so people think its fact, when thats not the case.
but me and you already realize that. we're both throwin up the same number...100 cals/mile is a good standard. sometimes i have to over generalize in this forum just to prove my point to those who think just cause they get on the stationary bike for 2 miles they must've burned 500 calories or somethin crazy.
a few other fun facts for those those trying to lose weight:

rule of thumb, the more exhausted you feel afterwards the workout, the more calories you burned. you would think this goes without saying, but im saying it anyway. 2 miles on the elliptical is NOT the same as 2 miles on the treadmill.
10- 15 minutes of high intensity interval training will burn more calories over a 24 hour period then a 30 minute jog on the treadmill. the thing about HIIT is it "tricks" your body to continually burn calories even after you leave the gym, as opposed to anything else. so run as hard as you can.
lifting heavy weights burns way more calories then your cardio workout of the same timeframe. then the muscle you build from lifting weights is extremely dense, making your frame more attractive...and its also very stingy with calories...so the food you eat feeds your muscle first instead of storing it as fat.


bolded for truth. I say this, cuz I see every fat f*cker on the eliptical and stationary bikes at my gym for like 45 min at a time. but these same people can't run on the treadmills for sh*t. when it comes to cardio, running trumps any other type of cardio. that includes stairmaster, stationary bike, biking, or eliptical machine