That's more percise than the monitors at the gym??
I want to try to cut my diet a little more to help with fat loss, but I don't know how many calories a day I"m working off in the day.
Thanks
Mandie
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That's more percise than the monitors at the gym??
I want to try to cut my diet a little more to help with fat loss, but I don't know how many calories a day I"m working off in the day.
Thanks
Mandie
exercise-wise a good rule of thumb is 10mins cycling/stepping/x-trainer burns roughly 100kcals. On the treadmill 1 mile at 2% incline or 1 mile outdoors burns around the 100 kcal mark too.
I usually estimate around 300kcals for a good 45-60 mins lifting and thats probably on the conservative side. There are formulas for calculating exactly how many kcals burned based on your bodyweight,age and BF % but I tend not to get too bogged down with the exact numbers, it can get a little obsessive. I prefer to go with how my body feels and looks in response to my diet.
Last edited by gingernuts; 17-Jun-2004 at 01:52 PM.
Buy a heart rate monitor that calculates the calories for you based on your height, weight, age and heart rate. Polar makes one that costs $100.
Some of the treadmills at my old gym allow you to input your gender, age, weight, bf% before you begin your workout, and they ask for your heart rate at several points. I'd assume those would be a little more accurate than the ones that just count calories based on averages.
That's true cuz the machines that don't ask for all that info are based on a 150 pound man.....(read that somewhere)Quote posted by FigureSkater