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Ryudori
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0.  Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: Fitness mode = accurate? |
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Is the calorie counter on the fitness mode accurate, because I'm finding it difficult to believe that one can burn 168 calories playing Pandemonium medium. the most I've ever burned playing DDR was 65...
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| 1. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| It was most likely had a decimal off. You are more likely to have lost 16.8 calories. |
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Potassium Permanganate
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Edible Bondage Tape
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| 3. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Fitness mode = accurate? |
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| Ryudori wrote: | | Is the calorie counter on the fitness mode accurate, because I'm finding it difficult to believe that one can burn 168 calories playing Pandemonium medium. the most I've ever burned playing DDR was 65... |
then yoru playing hte wrong DDR songs ive burned 80 playing heavy in the navy before
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| 4. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: Fitness mode = accurate? |
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| Elegant Bisexual Tramp wrote: | | Ryudori wrote: | | Is the calorie counter on the fitness mode accurate, because I'm finding it difficult to believe that one can burn 168 calories playing Pandemonium medium. the most I've ever burned playing DDR was 65... |
then yoru playing hte wrong DDR songs ive burned 80 playing heavy in the navy before |
Or he's a hell of a lot lighter than you are. |
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| 5. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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none of those figures are really that accurate. I know for sure that VERY few if not no one at all can burn over 100 calories in 2 minutes by just stomping.
I also know that one can rack up the calorie meter and not spend much energy at all. I can play Healing Vision (angelic mix) and not even get winded just by barely moving.. I sure as HECK didn't just burn over 100 calories.
Not that it's a big deal. it's fun to watch anyway...
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| 6. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Apex wrote: | none of those figures are really that accurate. I know for sure that VERY few if not no one at all can burn over 100 calories in 2 minutes by just stomping.
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concidering that 100 calories is about 1/30 of a pound and the actual distance you ar emoving its not far out of wack from running
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| 7. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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This is worth doing research on... anybody know how calorie use is even measured?
I'm pretty sure things ike swimming and running can burn around sixty calories per minute, so 100 calories on pandy expert seems pretty reasonable. |
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| 8. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| mtwieg wrote: | This is worth doing research on... anybody know how calorie use is even measured?
I'm pretty sure things ike swimming and running can burn around sixty calories per minute, so 100 calories on pandy expert seems pretty reasonable. |
the calorie is a measuemnt of heat dissipation (the amount of heat needed to raise one gram of water one dregree celcious in one atmosphere food calories are also knonw as kilocalories on the reasoning that they are 1000 regular calories
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Sinistar
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mtwieg
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| 10. Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Elegant Bisexual Tramp wrote: | | mtwieg wrote: | This is worth doing research on... anybody know how calorie use is even measured?
I'm pretty sure things ike swimming and running can burn around sixty calories per minute, so 100 calories on pandy expert seems pretty reasonable. |
the calorie is a measuemnt of heat dissipation (the amount of heat needed to raise one gram of water one dregree celcious in one atmosphere food calories are also knonw as kilocalories on the reasoning that they are 1000 regular calories |
oh, so you could just put someone in a giant calimeter, right? But how do you come up with numbers for sports that can't be dome in an calimeter? |
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| 11. Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| Sinistar wrote: | | I wouldn't spend too much time analyzing the ITG calorie counter, since Plaguefox admitted there's a bug in it. |
Link, please.
I'm just curious.
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PedanticOmbudsman
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| 12. Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| mtwieg wrote: | | I'm pretty sure things ike swimming and running can burn around sixty calories per minute, so 100 calories on pandy expert seems pretty reasonable. |
Like hell.
For a 200 pound person:
(all values are approximate)
Running 10 miles per hour - 32 calories per minute
Swimming - max of 22 calories/minute depending on stroke & intensity
Burning 100 calories in 2 minutes would (for a 200-pound person) be equivalent of running at 16 miles per hour for that entire two minutes -- i.e. impossible. For a 150-pound person, burning 100 calories in 2 minutes would be equivalent to running 21 miles per hour for the entire two minutes -- i.e. even more impossible.
Just personally, I find DDR-style dancing to be similar in exertion level to be running at about 6 miles per hour for an equal period of time. If this is accurate (I'll be doing some more tests with a threadmill and a heartrate monitor in gather supporting evidence) then a 1.5-minute DDR song would be about 23 calories for a 150-pound person (about 30 calories for a 200-pound person), and a 2-minute ITG song would be about 30 or 40. It will of course depend on the intensity of the song, but I seriously doubt that it would be much more than that. |
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Ryudori
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| 13. Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:47 am Post subject: Re: Fitness mode = accurate? |
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| Elegant Bisexual Tramp wrote: | | then yoru playing hte wrong DDR songs ive burned 80 playing heavy in the navy before |
Wow, how'd you manage that? The song I was alluding to was So Deep heavy...
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VxJasonxV
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| 15. Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Oh yes, I remember reading that now. Thank you Sinistar.
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Thrill_Shakespeare
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| 16. Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Sinistar wrote: | | I wouldn't spend too much time analyzing the ITG calorie counter, since Plaguefox admitted there's a bug in it. |
Have we heard anything from Plaguefox about a possible work around for the bug?
Or barring that, I'm to the point now that I wish there was a way to just shut the calorie counter off. I love random endless mode for workouts, but I would just as soon have the standard score percentage counter up there or empty space. Either would be an improvement. |
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Sinistar
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