Forums >Running 101>How accurate is the calories burned scale on here?
http://www.freewebs.com/run4life/RA/springChallenge.htm
2013
3000 miles
Sub 19:00 for 5K 05-03-13 Clee Prom 5K - 19:00:66 that was bloody close!
Sub-40:00 for 10K 17-03-13 Gainsborough 10K - 39:43
Sub 88:00 for HM
Good Bad & The Monkey
his site has the most accurate calculator for me (usually within 10 calories of HRM) that I have found yet.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
All calculators are estimates. Period. The only way to know for sure how many calories YOU burn in a given activity is through medical exercise testing. The primary determinants of your calorie burn rate are your activity and your weight. But other things, such as pace, efficiency, wind, surface quality, surface grade, percent effort also impact your burn rate. Your heart rate monitor, this website, the number on the treadmill, etc, those are all best guesses that may be wildly off. I usually use 120-150 cals per mile for my 155 lb body, but this may be hogwash. All the different devices I use give other numbers, also possibly hogwash. I run. I restrict my calories. I try to maintain my weight. That works for me.
Based on what gold standard? All calculators are estimates. Period. The only way to know for sure how many calories YOU burn in a given activity is through medical exercise testing. The primary determinants of your calorie burn rate are your activity and your weight. But other things, such as pace, efficiency, wind, surface quality, surface grade, percent effort also impact your burn rate.
The environemental factors such as wind and grade would only affect calories burned if it caused you to work harder, which would in turn increase your heartrate. A HRM that has your age, weight, height, RHR, and MHR is going to be close enough for most purposes.
Sabershooter, I like the names of your runs in your log... especially kill_the_rabbit.
Trent I notice that you seem to have the most scientific answers to people's questions. Where does all the knowledge come from?
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