calories in v calories out

[r0bbti]

Can anyone tell me how many calories you burn up while cycling - I know it depends on speed, body weight etc but I have looked at various websites and get wildly different answers. Say 1hour at 15mph on a hybrid? Then I can convert it into replacement KitKats, haha.

 

[zizou]

1 hour at 15 mph will be approx 700 calories i think

http://caloriecount.about.com is a pretty good site for tracking what you are eating and how much exercise etc

 

[gaz]

i eat nearly 4,000 calories a day when i commute. thats what 75 kit kats?

 

[Garz]

I round down what the computers say to equate roughly to an hour on the bike being circa 600.

 

[Speicher]

i eat nearly 4,000 calories a day when i commute. thats what 75 kit kats?

A four finger kit kat is approx 200 cals

IIRC 4,000 divided by 200 would be twenty

 

[Garz]

He may be referring to the two finger variety.

 

[jay clock]

try 32 per km. that is a good average

 

[gaz]

A four finger kit kat is approx 200 cals

IIRC 4,000 divided by 200 would be twenty

Sorry i ment how many individual bars, so around the same.

 

[jimboalee]

Garmin Edge is pretty close, but it assumes the air temperature is 20 C, you are wearing racing lycra, it is a Roadrace bike and there is NO wind in the air.

How accurate do you want to be?

1 stick of KitKat.... ?

+/- 25 kCals ....?

 

[jimboalee]

try 32 per km. that is a good average

That's close for Hybrid speeds.


20 C, NO wind and Lycra shorts & Jersey of course.

Compensate with all the necessary 'frig factors' and you'll be more accurate.

 

[Trevrev]

According to my heart rate monitor, on my 7 mile commute i used to burn anything between 350 to 390 calories...Trouble is, knowing things like that, it then starts to take over your life. I got to the stage where counting calories was a big part of my day. I became obsessed with it.
The monitor is now unused as i'm happier not knowing. As long as i stay slim.

 

[davidg]

According to my heart rate monitor, on my 7 mile commute i used to burn anything between 350 to 390 calories...Trouble is, knowing things like that, it then starts to take over your life. I got to the stage where counting calories was a big part of my day. I became obsessed with it.
The monitor is now unused as i'm happier not knowing. As long as i stay slim.

I do the same length and my polar says around 450....
it depends a lot on weight and how unfit you are!

 

[andyhunter]

you can only estimate, unless you have alot of cash to buy the right equipment to measure excatly threw bike cadence, speed, heart beat, wind speed etc just stick to just slighty over needing around 2500kcal a day , unless ur going to pump sum serious miles and go flat to the mat

 

[ColinJ]

I find that I lose about 1.25 pounds of fat on a hilly '200' (200 km or 125 mile audax) and about 1.0 pound on a hilly imperial century. That's allowing for any losses due to dehydration and is despite eating and drinking quite a lot on those rides. That's about 3,500 calories more than taken in per 100 hilly miles or 35 calories per hilly mile. On shorter rides I wouldn't eat or drink as much so it might be more like 50 calories per hilly mile.

It's much easier to avoid Kit Kats than it is to burn them off!

 

[Trevrev]

It's much easier to avoid Kit Kats than it is to burn them off!

Because i have a healthy diet during the day, with not many calories, i was suffering with feeling faint when i got home from my commute.
Thats when my wife suggested a bar of something before i left work.
As much as i hate sweet things, Mr. Crunchie does the job well !!!
Unless someone can suggest a healthier option.