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 Topic - Calorie Counting
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 by - wilkesley  on - 07 Jan 2013 |
Having logged a few rides using different gpx logging apps, I am interested in how they calculate calories used.
Most seem to use some combination of body weight and distance travelled. Sportstracker seems to take no account of time taken. So if I pootle round one of my circuits, it says I used the same number of calories as arriving at the end a sweating exhausted wreck in half the time.
At one time Sportstracker's calculation seemed wildly over the top. If I ate the same number of calories it reckoned I had used, I would have piled on a few stone per month.
I realize that a number of factors affect how many calories you use on a ride, but am interested in the general algorithms used.
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