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Post by muppetdance on Aug 13, 2005 23:55:52 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the calories burned calculator is a bit....er...inaccurate. Seems I burned 20 calories in like 2 minutes on a standard 5 footer song. I'm 5'4" and 190 pounds. Granted I work up a sweat when I play, but the numbers seem a little high. Is there anything more accurate to figure out actual calories burned? Or, am I an idiot and these figures actually ARE acurate?  If this has been discussed in the past, I apollogize. I've looked around a bit and seemed to have missed it if it HAS been discussed! Thanks  |
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Post by this little piggy on Aug 14, 2005 0:06:28 GMT -5
I find that the DDR calorie counter is not accurate at all (although not nearly as bad as the ITG one..)
I usually just figure out how long I played and look up approx. how many calories I would burn doing a "high impact aerobic workout" for that long. I don't trust the DDR calorie calculator.
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Post by xstatic on Aug 14, 2005 1:28:24 GMT -5
I usually just figure out how long I played and look up approx. how many calories I would burn doing a "high impact aerobic workout" for that long. precisely what I do. |
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Post by this little piggy on Aug 14, 2005 2:14:00 GMT -5
A calorie per second? Oh but what if there are jumps?! Then your calories burned go wooooOOOOOSH!!!
The bubbles.... The buh...buls!
Oh! Ee oh ee oh. Yeah-ee-yeah.
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Post by xstatic on Aug 14, 2005 2:28:18 GMT -5
the calories go WooooOOOOSH and I go WHEEEEEEEE!
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Post by jt8303 on Aug 14, 2005 8:08:35 GMT -5
Is the DDRMAX cal. counter anywhere near accurate?
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Post by this little piggy on Aug 14, 2005 18:11:08 GMT -5
I've never played max1, but I doubt it.
Because why would they go from accurate to completely off?
Yeah, it's not very accurate at all.
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Post by abrannan on Aug 14, 2005 19:25:31 GMT -5
None of them are accurate, and they never have been. I've found the only good use is to use the calorie counter as a relative measure of how intense your workout was, i.e. If I play 20 minutes of 9 footers and burn 700 "calories" that's about an equivalent workout to 30 minutes of 7 footers (also reporting 700 "calories").
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Post by iheartpolkadots on Aug 14, 2005 22:36:13 GMT -5
most counters on machines are inaccurate, even when you go on a treadmill or that sort of machine its still inaccurate, but sometimes i like to believe they arent, haha, go ahead and eat that extra brownie *sneaky face*
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