Hey everyone. I have some questions on how accurate my calorie counter on my exercise bike is since it never asked for my weight or height. Can someone do me a huge favor and figure it for me? I'm 18, I weigh 170 pounds and I'm 5 foot 8. I'm not sure if body fat is taken into account but according to my taylor scale I have a whopping 22% body fat. Sounds might high but I'm working on it ;) I'd just like to know if someone can give me an approx. calories burned/hour if I go 21-22 mph. Thanks for any help!

Here is one of many calorie calculators available on the web:

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.html

hope this gets you the answer you are looking for.

Hey everyone. I have some questions on how accurate my calorie counter on my exercise bike is since it never asked for my weight or height. Can someone do me a huge favor and figure it for me? I'm 18, I weigh 170 pounds and I'm 5 foot 8. I'm not sure if body fat is taken into account but according to my taylor scale I have a whopping 22% body fat. Sounds might high but I'm working on it ;) I'd just like to know if someone can give me an approx. calories burned/hour if I go 21-22 mph. Thanks for any help!

Kind of hard to do since we have no idea of the resistance of the exercise bike when you are going 21-22 mph. However, since this is a stationary bike (I assume) and does not have to actually accelerate your body mass or lift it on hills, I suspect that your height, weight, body fat %, and shoe size are all independant of the number of calories per hour required to turn the cranks at what the machine calls 21-22 mph.

If you want to crosscheck the calorie counter, try using a heart rate monitor that estimates calorie expenditures and see how closely it agrees with the machines estimate.

well I alternate between a 1 setting (my warmup) for 4 minutes, a 2 setting for 46 minutes, and a 3 setting for 25 minutes. I go in total 75 minutes a day although I did 80 minutes today with 51 minutes on the 2 setting. The calculator web site was actually pretty close to what my bike says. Thanks for the help. :)

edit: oh actually it's quite lower when I select "stationary, very vigorous" About 400 calories lower. Oh well. Now I know how many I'm really burning.

I assume E2 workouts (16 MPH trainer, fluid resistance, 150 BPM) burn about 1000 calories for my body type (6'6", 230). I go around 75 minutes per session 4 - 5 times a week depending on what else I do besides E2. M1 (18 - 20 MPH trainer, fluid resistance, 161 BPM) burns about 1200 - 1300 calories per hour. A usuall workout with both of these 30 or each will burn about 1100 calories. With my normal active lifestyle (2500 calorie burn) I can kill 3500 - 4000 calories in a day with workout... losing about 1.5 pounds per week...

The calorie calculator is a little low for me but I just workout and watch the pounds come off, the easiest thing...