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    • CommentAuthorFree Memberfrosted
    • CommentTimeSep 6th 2007
     
    frosted

    Hi,

    I've noticed that your calorie calculators use ranges to calculate calories.  For instance, if I walk for 4 miles in an hour, it gives me a value of say 350 calories.  If I do this in 1 hour and 1 minute, the calories burned falls to something around 270 (these are examples, but a true example of what happens).  It seems that you prescribe one value for calories/hour at 4mph-4.49 mph, a totally different one at 4.5, etc.  Can you fix this so it's more on a sliding scale.  I know one minute does not make a ~100 calories burned difference in my workout.  Just a suggestion, but one that would be helpful and not make me misreport the time I took doing something ;)

    Cheers.

    • CommentAuthorFree Memberp00n3r
    • CommentTimeSep 6th 2007
     
    p00n3r
    Frosted is absolutely right. The calculator says I burn more calories running the same distances at a slower rate than at a fast rate. If I run 5 miles in 56 minutes, it says I burn like 821 calories, yet if I finish that distance in 50 minutes I only burn about 600. That makes no sense.
    • CommentAuthorFree MemberArmyPat
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2007
     
    ArmyPat

    And I thought it was just me.....  Here I've been running slower and slower trying to lose more weight......:-)

     

    • CommentAuthorHero!!kevin@mmf
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2007
     
    kevin@mmf

    Checke out this discussion:

    http://www.mapmyrun.com/community/discussion/113/overvew-of-our-calorie-calculations

     This has the overview on how the calculator functions...

    -Kevin

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    LisaWorkingHard

    My 2 cents.....

    If you are using this site regularly, using many of it's features like calorie calculator and are accessing this forum, it appears to me that you are deeply invested in healthy exercise and that it is part of your lifestyle (yeah......that is a great place to be!). I would suggest getting a heart rate monitor so that the calorie estimation is more precise. I love my monitor and I consider it essential to my workouts (for me it keeps me motivated as I can see the calories burned AS I am exercising, or my PACE & DISTANCE, as I am running/cycling, etc.) and it is just as important as good running shoes and comfortable workout apparel. I highly recommend POLAR montitors, although to my knowledge the files are not uploadable to this site (WHICH I ALSO LOVE). Only the Garmin is uploadable.

    Thanks Kevin for the formula that you used. I am going to compare your estimation to that on my heart rate monitor.

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