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Anonymous
hey /fit/, if i bike 1.8 km to get wendys does it even out the calorie intake of there chicken strips/medium fry?
>> Anonymous
i just looked up the calories and medium fry + chicken strips = 840 calories. how long would i have to bike to work this off / even out?
>> Anonymous
say 25kcal per 10 minutes cycling so 5.6 hours.
>> Anonymous
>>188992
SIX HOURS ON A BIKE FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHH
>> Anonymous
>>188993
You're better off not eating that shit. And run rather than cycle. You can get 100kcal per 10 mins depending on heart rate/effort/amount of tissue (fat/muscle) you have. Then its only an hour and a half for your greasy-grease. Although, once you've made a calorie deficiency would you really want to pile crap into your face? - That's 840 calories that you will obtain from fat rather than crap, making you healther, slimmer and ready for sexy time! Jagshemash!
>> Anonymous
>>189016
>Jagshemash!
wat
>> Anonymous
>>189019
Borat.
>> Anonymous
>>189016

That or do a good workout on the elliptical. I can do about 100 kcal/5 minutes on the elliptical and it didn't take a long time worth of training to get up to that level.

When i'm really pushing it, I can do about 27 kcal/minute. though that's harder to sustain.

Also, you don't fuck up your knees and joints. Elliptical > running.
>> Anonymous
>100 kcal/5 minutes

thats what it says..

That would be 1200 kcal/hour, lol
>> Anonymous
>>189052

Yes. I'm completely aware of how to perform basic arithmetic "lol."

My machine maxes out at 70 minutes. It won't let you do more than that. I've done nearly 1500 calories in 70 minutes before. The counts are accurate.
>> Anonymous
>>189055

I'm sorry, but due to the fact that

>>189016

tells us running burns 100kcal/10min at the max and that you said

>and it didn't take a long time worth of training to get up to that level

there is no possible way that you're burning over 1200 kcal/hour.

Furthermore i'd love to know what sport, which involves moving around, as for example running, burns that much calories..
>> Anonymous
>>189076

Sorry you're too stupid to understand how this all works, but most ellipticals base calorie counts on energy output in watts. That's why you have to enter your weight before you can actually get an adequate conversion.

So, the counts are accurate. Burning over 1000 calories an hour isn't entirely a hard thing to do if you're already at a base level of fitness. Since you are an extreme fatass who becomes winded within seconds of starting to work out, you might prefer the recumbant stationary bike at a low level of resistance. Then you can brag about your 80 calories/hour while the rest of us actually do real work.
>> Anonymous
>>189106

Somehow, you're the only one insulting here..

I'm off, don't really need this childish behavior - Oh and I am not fat, go 2-3 times to the gym a week, using various elliptical trainer models for my cardio training.

Keep telling yourself you're burning 1500 kcal's an hour, apparently you need it
>> Anonymous
>>189121

Next time you go to the gym, get on an elliptical with a wattage display on it. Adjust the resistance to get your wattage to about 300 and sustain that for 5 minutes. You'll burn 100 calories. Maybe more.
>> Anonymous
>>189106
you are making a fool of yourself.
>> Anonymous
>>189128

Ripped from howstuffworks.com

* 1 horsepower is equivalent to 746 watts. So if you took a 1-horsepower horse and put it on a treadmill, it could operate a generator producing a continuous 746 watts.
* 1 horsepower (over the course of an hour) is equivalent to 2,545 BTU (British thermal units). If you took that 746 watts and ran it through an electric heater for an hour, it would produce 2,545 BTU (where a BTU is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree F).
* One BTU is equal to 1,055 joules, or 252 gram-calories or 0.252 food Calories. Presumably, a horse producing 1 horsepower would burn 641 Calories in one hour if it were 100-percent efficient.

So 1hp = 641 calories per hour @ 100% efficiency.

Humans are about 22% efficient according to various studies. Let's be generous and say 25% for simplicity.

So, for a human being to output 1hp over the course of an hour it would require 2564 calories of energy. Since 1hp = 746 watts, then 300w of output is 0.4 hp.

Hence, 1 hour @ 300w (0.4hp) is 1031 calories/hr.

That's assuming 25% efficiency. Over time, that efficiency will go down. So the estimate used by some of the ellipticals isn't that far off.
>> Anonymous
A) Calorie counts on all machines are complete, absolute, 100% bullshit. You honestly think every person burns the same number of calories? Don't be an idiot.

B) Bicycles are by far the most efficient means of human locomotion = bad for burning calories.

1200 kcal an hour is completely ridiculous. That's up around elite-athletic all out sprinting.
>> Anonymous
>>189162

Also, your math looks fine.

But there's no way you're going to be able to sustain 300 watts for an hour. Lifting weights or playing sports are much better ways of burning calories.
>> Anonymous
>>189178

Why do you deny what you can clearly see in numbers? 1hp is just another way of saying 33,000 ft/lbs of work per hour. 1200 calories/hour isn't unrealistic depending on what you are doing. That's why we're sticking to wattage here and not some nebulous other metric. Wattage output is measurable across most exercise machines and can therefore convert relatively easily.

>>189180

After practicing for a while, 300 watts isn't too difficult to sustain if you're already in good shape. Lots of fitness cyclists can do this. Some racers can generate up to 1800w for short bursts.

Also, the more output you are doing, the more inefficient your body gets.

I can sustain 860w of output on an elliptical for about 27 seconds. It's not a linear scaling.

Granted, there is the chance that my elliptical is completely wrong in calculating wattage output. If that's the case, then yeah, the calorie counts are obviously going to be messed up. On the other hand, if it's even close to accurate, then you have some reasonable measure of the work you're actually doing.
>> Anonymous
http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question658.htm&url=http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~et1
81/hpv/hpv.html
look at the chart below The Human Engine
according to that an average human can do a little less than 0,3hp for an hour
a first class athlete can do 0,475hp for an hour
some one between that could do around 0,4hp for an hour
>> Anonymous
>>189209

Thank you. Hopefully now

>>189194

shuts the fuck up. God damn. People like him are the reason everything in this world sucks.
>> Anonymous
>>189178

Also, when you enter your personal information (age, weight, ect) it will give you a more accurate estimate of how many calories you burn.
>> Anonymous
You guys are aware that with an elliptical you can simply -step- forwards and let gravity carry it downwards, don't you?

I'm not denying that 1200 kcal/hr of WORK is being done.. Just that it isn't YOU doing all of it.

But, whatever. I'm sure with your incredible calorie burning skills you've got 5% bodyfat all the time. I know if I could burn half a pound of fat an hour I'd be ripped city.
>> Anonymous
>>188963

1.8 kilometers isn't that far. It goes deeper than calories too. Deep fried chicken strips and french fries have little nutritional value other than a little protein and a whole lot of bad fat. Maybe once or twice a week, in moderation, but definitely not a daily meal.
>> Anonymous
just because you burned the same amount of calories doesn't mean you have negated the effect of eating shit.
>> Anonymous
PROTIP: Most of your calories burnt throughout the day go towards keeping up your metabolism. Then the rest are split between physical activity and digestion. It was something like 65/20/15 but that could be wrong. This is assuming you're eating at or near your BMR and not smoking crack cocaine or binge eating boxes of Krispie Kremes.
>> Anonymous
>>189227

Holy fuck, you still don't give up do you? How many fucking times do you have to be _proven_ wrong and _proven_ to be an idiot until you shut the fuck up?

WATTAGE you fucking retard. WATTAGE. We are using WATTAGE for a fucking reason. It takes into account all other factors and is a measure of energy output. Sure, maybe gravity carries you some of the way. That doesn't factor in to how fucking fast you are spinning that damn crank that measures your energy output.

Holy living fuck. Holy dick. You are one serious fucking retard.
>> Anonymous
>>189449
When you say calories in your calculations do you mean food calories or regular calories?