How many calories are you burning for your activities?

[Zenseekercu]

http://caloriesburnedhq.com/calories-burned-on-elliptical

I was trying to figure out how many calories I was burning when I use my elliptical.  I found this website that lets you plug in your activity (treadmill, elliptical, etc.) and your vitals/times/effort, and it gives you an estimate of how many calories you are burning.  My elliptical's display went to fitness machine heaven, but it still works, just no data.  This is a huge help.  The link above is for the elliptical, but you can go to the 'home' setting to change your exercise machine.

[WendyB]

Great link! Thanks!

[HelenaFitbit]

Thank you for the link! I'm sure plenty of users will find it very helpful. 

Happy holidays! 

[josephz2va]

I use the gym's elliptical machine, set it to HR Interval, 99 minutes, my age 35 has it at 130-148 BPM.

Ignoring the elapsed time, I focus on the 10,000 steps burning at the two intervals, rapid speed (90 rpm) for 2 minutes to 148 and slow speed (60 rpm average) to 130 for 2 minutes. If I can try to get to 15,000 steps, that's more burning.

[ssathya]

60/90 slow/fast RPM? I'm impressed. If only I could do 85RPM for 30 seconds.....

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[yldthng]

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

This is a good one - it takes into account your sex, age, weight, and height to give you a better estimate of what YOU are burning.

[Heybales]

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@yldthng wrote:

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

This is a good one - it takes into account your sex, age, weight, and height to give you a better estimate of what YOU are burning.

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That's a good one.

It's figuring out your BMR (gender, age, weight, height), and then using that calorie burn per minute as the basis with the normal MET tables for calorie burn in activities. 

https://sites.google.com/site/compendiumofphysicalactivities/compendia

This is exactly what Fitbit does, since they have your BMR, and use the same tables.

Except Fitbit has more level descriptions, actually other sites do too because the MET tables do.

Calisthenics / exercise - vigorous - 604 to Fitbit Calisthenics - 613

Walking 4 mph - 386 to Fitbit Walk 4 mph - 383

Lifting weights - vigorous - 455 to Fitbit Weights - 460 (there used to be 2 levels on this, lost lower one)

Bicycling / cycling 14-16 mph - 792 to Fitbit Cycling 15 mph - 766 (can get much more exact though)

Elliptical trainer (only level) - 851 to Fitbit Elliptical High effort 919, Medium effort 666 (3 levels available)

Running 10 mph - 1346 to Fitbit Running 10 mph - 1225

Probably the difference between the Mifflin BMR that site uses, and the almost Mifflin BMR Fitbit uses.

And the more intense the effort (more METS) the bigger the difference is shown.

But Fitbit gets more exact on walking, running, biking, swimming if your pace is between levels.

It had 2 levels for Spin bike entry though, but Fitbit lets you enter distance if you have it.

Same daily activity stuff is there too, though Fitbit would capture that decently.

It is sad they have so few description entries, because very few do that method using BMR, most sites use what is considered an average standard value, 1.2 cal/kg/hr, with the same MET tables.

It's interesting the first site mentioned specific for elliptical, is about 1/2 what Fitbit and the MET tables give.