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Old 07-29-10 | 07:05 AM
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Power meter. As I said you have to make an assumption about your efficiency but the range for humans is not very wide and the conversion factor ends up being between something like .9 and 1.2 calories of food burned for each kJ of work performed. Therefor it's fairly accurate to just read kJ from the power meter as calories.
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