Update: New way to calculate calories burned

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Document Update: New way to calculate calories burned Written 2 October 2005 23:12
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Member: 1 		Hello, Shapelink's new way of calculating calorie consumption is finally here. We hope that this update will make the way calories burned is calculated more exact and easier to change. All cardio activities, classes and cardio-gym exercises in your Exercise Database now have a setting where you can set the intensity. You do that by picking an intensity that maches your activity. This intensity will be used for the calculations. For example: If you add "Mountainbiking" as a cardio activity you can pick the intensity equivalent to "Terrain biking" or "Swimming" etc. When you add a workout or cardio exercise you can now set the intensity for the workout; low, normal or high. A workout with high intensity will burn slightly more calories and a workout with low intensity will burn slightly less. You can also enter the exact amount of calories burned during the workout, for example if you have a clock measuring your heart rate. For example: You run 50 minutes on a flat track, normal intensity. You run 50 minutes on a terrain track with lots of hills, high intensity. Because of these changes all of you that have added your own exercises, activites etc in your exercise database will have to enter your database and pick the suitable intensities before the calories can be calculated. For more information please look in the help pages under calories burned Tomas Shapelink.com

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Document Re: Update: New way to calculate calories burned Written 12 August 2010 9:22
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Hi Tomas,

I know this is a long time since your post. At least it shows that I tried to search.  Also, the link to the help pages in your post doesn't work anymore, and I couldn't find the section in the help.

I noticed that when I take longer time for the same track, I burn more calories. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I know I can set the intensity separately, but isn't it some way to include the time/distance ratio in the calculation? I guess this has to be done individually, and that  a "default" value has to be set at the beginning, like now. New runs can then be compared to previous runs on the same track, or to that persons previous speeds in the same activity.

Thanks for a great app!

 

Per.

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