{"id":38236,"date":"2017-04-23T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38236"},"modified":"2017-04-21T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:47:30","slug":"just-how-many-calories-are-you-burning-during-your-exercise-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/23\/just-how-many-calories-are-you-burning-during-your-exercise-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how many calories <em>are<\/em> you burning during your exercise program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>The Register<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/04\/21\/you_cant_buy_one_now_the_flying_car_makes_its_perennial_return\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alistair Dabbs<\/a> gets around to talking about the next flying car fantasy after first getting his knob squeezed (it&#8217;s not what you think) and then trying to do a bit of measurement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A short while ago, at the end of another 45 minutes of relentless, sweaty knob-tweaking, one of my fellow gym members asked how many calories she could expect to burn at each class. Aha, I like a challenge, and so I decided to use my access to various wearable tech devices in order to find an answer to this question.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I suppose it was a bright idea: the difficult bit was in implementing it.<\/p>\n<p>Bound up by a host of bands and straps, I looked like a cross between a <em>Running Man<\/em> baddie and a punk reject hanging around Vivienne Westwood&#8217;s shop on the King&#8217;s Road in 1976. Yet I am tech gladiator incarnate, I told myself. I am Ali-Stor of Bromlar, son of Al-An, defiler of words, wearer of strap-ons, tweaker of knobs!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the developers of these fitness trackers thought it would be a good idea too. As it turns out, their implementation leaves a little to be desired. Every device measured and calculated my physical effort in a different way, producing wildly different results.<\/p>\n<p>One heart-and-respiration monitor strapped across my chest reckoned I had burnt around 800 calories during the spin class. Another tracker reported a more modest 500 for the same session, with others suggesting various figures in between.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all was my trusty Fitbit, which told me I&#8217;d been sitting down and doing nothing for those 45 minutes. No problem, I can simply use the app to log this period in my exercise record as a spin class and let its online database calculate a typical burn for the period.<\/p>\n<p>172 calories.<\/p>\n<p>Oh thanks a bunch, Fitbit. That&#8217;s the same as for a 20-minute stroll between my house and the local train station. Next time I consider attending a spin class, maybe I&#8217;ll go full-on and nip out to the newsagent instead. It&#8217;ll use up more calories and my tender knob can be left unsqueezed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Register, Alistair Dabbs gets around to talking about the next flying car fantasy after first getting his knob squeezed (it&#8217;s not what you think) and then trying to do a bit of measurement: A short while ago, at the end of another 45 minutes of relentless, sweaty knob-tweaking, one of my fellow gym [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,57,15],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-38236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-humour","category-technology","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9WI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38237,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38236\/revisions\/38237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}