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We will be very direct: the calorie counters on all treadmill are wrong. Yea, if you treadmill just told you that you burned 500 calories is probably very wrong.

Many people, especially the beginner have to tendency to consider these measurements as true and organize their workouts around these readings.

Treadmill manufactures made these counters considering the average person with the average height and weight and give return some average values. So the treadmill counter is accurate only if your body is the same as this average Joe.

There are many persons that see a global conspiracy and say that these counters will probably show more calories burned so that you can fell good and continue to use that brand. Other says that the treadmill shows less in order to fool you to train harder. All of these are just mambo jambo.

The producers install some piece of software in your treadmill console, and this software will gave you results based on some variables. Now if you train on expensive treadmill the machine may ask what is your height or weight and age. Their results may be more accurate but still they cannot calculate exactly the burned calories.

Each human have a different body chemistry that no machine or software can count, analyze or measure. An individual may burn more calories that other. Also each individual have different fitness levels. A person may have more fat those muscles and other more muscles than fat. These calories counters show inaccurate results because the treadmill cannot measure and consider these unique individual characteristics.

In conclusion don’t rely on these calorie counters. These are just some nice features (many times the counters are installed just for marketing) that will give you an average value.

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