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EMSR2D2
8/25/07 5:02 P
 
 
The thing with any calorie tracker for exercise is that it can't tell what intensity you're working at.
I play tennis and according to this site an hour's tennis works off about 500 calories. Well, it probably does if you play a solid hour of fairly competitive singles tennis. But I just knock about with a friend, and probably for 15 minutes of that hour, we're standing at the net chatting.
So to make sure I'm not overestimating, I always log in about 2/3rds of the time I think I did (ie if I was on court for an hour, I tell the site I did 40 mins) as I think that's probably closer to the truth!
CHERYLHURT
8/25/07 10:43 A
 
 
Sometimes it seems I get credit for a LOT of swim calories burned when I wasn't that vigorous.
 

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