Calories burned when working out?

[beautifulmithra]

Can anyone give me a link that will calculate, roughly, how many calories I've burned doing a certain exercise for said amount of time? I googled it, but haven't found anything too useful. Thought I'd ask a couple of the WW comms since you've never steered me wrong before. :)

Thanks!

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[dianap240]

thedailyplate.com

it had useful nutritional information as well as exercise information. You will have to sign up, but it is free and the information is pretty good.

[beautifulmithra]

Great, I will check it out. Thanks!

[aliskye]

The ww site has a calculator for this but the results are in activity points. Here's one that has the results in calories:

http://www.caloriecontrol.org/exercalc.html

[beautifulmithra]

Awesome, thanks!

[peanutmomma]

I use a heart rate monitor (Polar F6) when I work out, so it gives me a very accurate reading of calories burned. Since it's customized for height, weight, gender and age, it's far more accurate than an exercise machine's readout - most of those are pretty generic in their calculations and are probably set up for men.

I use the equation that 100 calories burned = 1 AP. Someone on the WW boards once linked to the patent for the WW Points formulas and figured out that 100=1AP is how the activity calculators seem to work.