I've been trying to track my calories, and I do cardio every other day using machines at the gym.
I can't find this on any of the machine manufacturers websites, but for example, if I do 5km on an eliptical machine in 30 mins, and it tells me I did X watts of power and burned Y calories, there is going to be a significant margin or error because there is no way they are putting anything other than the cheaptest electronics into these machines.
I would assume that there is probably like a 20% margin of error for stuff like calories burned, anyone else have better information and does that assumption seem reasonable?
I can't find this on any of the machine manufacturers websites, but for example, if I do 5km on an eliptical machine in 30 mins, and it tells me I did X watts of power and burned Y calories, there is going to be a significant margin or error because there is no way they are putting anything other than the cheaptest electronics into these machines.
I would assume that there is probably like a 20% margin of error for stuff like calories burned, anyone else have better information and does that assumption seem reasonable?