Timeline for Energy expenditure (calories burned) equation for running
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| Nov 11, 2018 at 9:55 | comment | added | edwardc | @DilithiumMatrix perhaps it's using the MET tables, but I'd bet a 3.6% discriminant is an act of laziness more than anything else. It's likely the programmer was given a set of distances, weights and calories and they just changed this constant by +/- 0.1% until it fit reasonably well. These kind of sets are what drives a lot of calorie logic on treadmills. It's worth taking away from this that a lot of these calculators are really poorly written. This one was just easy to see how poorly written it is. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 14:25 | history | edited | edwardc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified units of measurement in equation.
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| Aug 29, 2017 at 22:48 | comment | added | DilithiumMatrix |
Ha, interesting. Presumably the constant (1.036) is based on something like the MET tables mentioned in fitness.stackexchange.com/a/25564/7397
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| Aug 28, 2017 at 16:56 | history | answered | edwardc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |