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Is The Reading Of Burnt Calories On Treadmill Accurate?

Hi I have been working on treadmill every morning. I started out doing 3.0 mph at 7 incline and was burning 600 plus calories according to the treadmill monitor. But when I started jogging at 4.0 mph for 5 mins and walking at 3.0 mph at 0.5 incline I barely get 300 calories burned. Again the calories is what the treadmill is telling I am burning is the calories burning accurate?
Tue, 16 Feb 2016
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Hi.

The reading on the treadmill is usually for a 60 minute duration, i.e. if you run at a particular speed, that would result in burning those many number of calories in a 1 hour period. So as you clearly did not run for that duration of time, you did not end up burning 600 calories. Hope this clears your doubt.

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Is The Reading Of Burnt Calories On Treadmill Accurate?

Hi. The reading on the treadmill is usually for a 60 minute duration, i.e. if you run at a particular speed, that would result in burning those many number of calories in a 1 hour period. So as you clearly did not run for that duration of time, you did not end up burning 600 calories. Hope this clears your doubt. Best wishes.