Re: All you need are looks and a whole lot of money.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
Also, the idea that a cardio machine can give you an accurate measure of calories burned based only on how many steps or revolutions you have done (and maybe your heart rate), but without knowing your height, weight, gender, age, and resting and max heart rates is koo koo.
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Why aren't calories burned a simple function of work performed -- a matter of weight multiplied by energy easily measured by the machine? Different bodies will be more and less efficiently in mobilizing to get this work done, but if you jump on a machine and expend (say) 500 calories of energy in moving its steps or pedals, why isn't that much easy to measure?
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