Workout Mode in Supernova?

[guccierica]

can someone epxlain to me what the numbers mean? I get confused...

first of all, calories. when it says 334.89 kcal, does the K stand for thousand?

second, on average, it says I jog around 10 miles in the 1 hour period that I do it. Does that seem right?

Also, it said i jogged 38 miles. But I knew i didn't...is it cumalitive to other workouts?

its very confusing

[abrannan]

guccierica said:

can someone epxlain to me what the numbers mean? I get confused...

first of all, calories. when it says 334.89 kcal, does the K stand for thousand?
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second, on average, it says I jog around 10 miles in the 1 hour period that I do it. Does that seem right?

Also, it said i jogged 38 miles. But I knew i didn't...is it cumalitive to other workouts?

its very confusing

Don't put too much stock in the numbers, it's impossible to get an accurate calorie count (which is then converted to get the "jogging" equivalent).

[prayerwarrior35]

guccierica said:

first of all, calories. when it says 334.89 kcal, does the K stand for thousand?

Yes the k stands for thousand, as in km for thousand meters, kcal mean a thousand calories. Calorie is a unit of measuement for energy, so if you burn 334.89kcal that is == 334,890 calories burned. But the DDR calorie counter is way off, always has been.

And don't get your hopes up too high, you see that 120 calorie soda, it lies to you. It's really 120,000 calories == 120kcal, they get away with calling it 120 calories because it's understood to represent a 'food calorie'. 1 food calorie == 1kcal == 1,000 calories. So that holds true for all food labels, I think the reason being was to try not to confuse people with extremely large numbers, 2,000 food calories == 2,000,000 calories, but then comes the confusion. Most exercise machines / watches / calorie counters just use the food calorie numbers, but DDR games have always used the correct kcal's.

If that confused you, the 334.89kcal is the same as 334.89 food calories, or what most people call just calories. But you probably only really did 150kcal, perhaps you can get a heart rate watch that calculates calories burned for a more accurate value.

[abrannan]

To simplify what Prayerwarrior was trying to say:
kcal = 1,000 calories (little c) = 1 Calorie (big C, the measurement used for food).