how accurate are calorie counters on stairmasters?
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While some types of cardio machines are more accurate than others, none of them will be 100% accurate. In general, they overestimate your calorie burn by 15% to 20% because they can't account for all the individual factors involved in calorie-burning.
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According to the MyFitnessPal app, you'll burn roughly 9 calories per flight of stairs, based on it taking one minute for a 150-pound person to climb a flight. (Obviously, your mileage, or should we say footage, may vary.)
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"Our testing has proven that the step count recorded by the Band as a user travels is within a very small margin of error from the actual step number." Perfect accuracy is way overrated anyway. You don't need to know that you've taken exactly 8,456 steps today.
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The more you weigh, the more calories you'll burn climbing stairs. Harvard Health Publications reports that a 125-pound person expends 360 calories using a stair step machine for one hour, a 155-pound individual burns 446 calories and a 185-pound person expends 532 calories per hour climbing stairs.
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['On Apple Watch head to the Activity app.', 'Swipe or scroll down on the Digital Crown.', "You'll see your active calories burned under the Move goal."]
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Active Calories = Total Calories – BMR You won't see Total Calories displayed on Apple Watch itself, but both Active and Total Calories are displayed in the Activity app on iPhone. In the screenshot above, 1,619 is my Active Calories for the day.
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A moderate 5-mph run will burn about 755 calories per hour in a 200-pound person. Run up a StairMaster (or up a particularly long flight of stairs), and a 200-pound person will burn 819 calories per hour.
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2. BURNS THOSE CALORIES. The average hike for the average person (154 lbs) burns an estimated 370 calories per hour. However, the Grouse Grind (aka Mother Nature's Stairmaster), given the aforementioned elevation, has been approximated to burn an average of 1000 calories from start to finish.
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Calories burned climbing 100 stairs: 4.6. Calories burned climbing 150 stairs: 6.9. Calories burned climbing 1000 stairs: 46. Calories burned climbing stairs for 10 minutes: 45.3.
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Stepping in place during commercials burned an average 148 calories and resulted in an average 2,111 steps in about 25 minutes. Walking on a treadmill for an hour burned an average 304 calories.
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The limitations of tracker and treadmill calorie counts A study at Stanford University assessed different devices to check their accuracy. The results showed that the most accurate of them was off by an average of 27 percent and the least accurate by 93 percent.
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Calories burned climbing 100 stairs: 4.6. Calories burned climbing 150 stairs: 6.9. Calories burned climbing 1000 stairs: 46.
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According to Dr. John Porcari from the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse, calorie counters on fitness machines can be as much as 25 to 30 percent over or under your actual burn rate. The numbers returned are an estimate of how much the average person of your same weight burns at your exercise intensity level.
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Calorie counters on treadmills and elliptical machines aren't as accurate as you may think. ... Research shows that ellipticals can overestimate the number of calories burned in a 30-minute workout session by more than 100 calories. Other machines may have similarly inflated numbers.
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The calories burned on a flight of stairs will vary based on your weight, the number of stairs in the flight and your climbing pace, but most people burn about 5 to 10 calories per flight. You can get a more accurate estimate of the calories burned walking up and down stairs with a calculator.
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Your Fitbit uses a three-axis accelerometer to count how many steps you take each day, converting recorded motion into reviewable data. Fitbits are often less accurate in tracking distance travelled and calories burned, but the step counter is considered reliable.
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Mine fluctuates between about 1,800-2,000 a day. My guess is it is based on how long your Apple Watch is worn in addition to your height and weight. If this is the case, your actual total calorie burn will be higher than what's measured.