Fitness Equipment & Calorie Readouts

Today I want to quickly look into whether or not the readouts on our favourite exercise equipment is precise or not

. If you've been doing some solid workouts recently and noticing that the readouts are saying that you've burnt a bunch of calories, you may want to read on to find out just how they're calculated and if you can trust them.

It's great that you've been working and pushing yourself on your cardio machines, but the focus of this information is to think if we should trust what our machines are telling us and act accordingly. By all means feel good about working out, but don't get too carried away, because as the professionals say, there read outs are just estimates and no where near exact.

"What consumers need to bear in mind would be that the readouts are meant to be an estimate of energy expenditure," said Mark Reinking, assistant professor of physical therapy at St. Louis University. "There are good data from lots of research through the years of about how much energy it costs to do certain activities.

"So when I walk up to the treadmill, I input my age and weight. It will give me an estimate based on my age, my weight, the speed that the treadmill is going, and give me an estimate of the energy I'm expending."

So you can use the calorie burn readout as a benchmark, but rely by yourself personal feeling about the progress you are making. And if you are utilizing the same machine again and again, you should use the readout as a relative report on how you have progressed during a period of time.

Whilst it does not provide exact amounts of calories burnt off, I can use it in an effort to benchmark my progress and push forward to improve upon it. So lets say that your exercise machine shows that you burnt 300 calories, as you build up your own cardiovascular you should see you have burnt 400 calories of fat, and as you continue to train the figures should go up accordingly.

You should realize however that you could jump on another treadmill, or whatever you were using, and see that your burning less on it. That's just because different models have different ways of calculating and you should not take them as being precise.

There are a number of things that go in to determining calories burned, including who's working out on the elliptical trainer, muscle tissue, conditioning, resting metabolism, along with other specifics. But if you ask me, it's best just to aim to keep burning more each time you use your fitness equipment.

by: Heather Peters.

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