cheebahmunkey

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!

webist

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

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

hope this gets you the answer you are looking for.

supcom

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.

cheebahmunkey

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.

my58vw

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...