Logging Exercise..

When logging exercise do you tend to base it on what the machines have told you you burnt? Or do you just log the time and the activity you were doing?

I've heard that treadmills and other machines can over-estimate the amount of calories burnt? Anyone know anymore about this?

Thank

activity and time...

machines usually give numbers much higher.

I use calories burned calculators on line.

I follow the calculator online, though that calculation and what the machine gives me are pretty much the same.   

make sure to subtract the amount of calories you would use if you just sat on your butt. most people forget to do that.

Original Post by mgriep:

make sure to subtract the amount of calories you would use if you just sat on your butt. most people forget to do that.

If you're logging it in CC, it does that for you

can i just ask how everybody logs there activities in CC please.....

I say my activity level is sedentary and then log each activity seperately... there are usually a lot of them though... gym, walking swimming all in a day sometimes... any one do this differently and up their activity level without logging exercise separately?

I've found that CC vastly over-estimates how many calories I burn when i log individual activities.  Sometimes, I'll swim for 3-4 hours a day, and if its 4 hours, it basically tells me I can eat 4000 calories and be at mainenance.  I'm sorry, but that's wrong. If that were the case, I wouldn't be in the situation I am in right now (wanting to lose 15-20 pounds)

I just set my activity level and go from there...

I register activity as sedentary and use a heart rate monitor (Polar F4) to calculate activity time and calories burned. I can't trust the machine or CC values because I am on beta blockers. I'm not even sure that the F4 is accurate but its the best I can do