Calories Burned with Low Impact vs High Impact
Hi everyone, I just registered today but I am a frequent lurker. I have a question regarding my workouts. I usually do about 45 minutes low impact exercise on the elliptical or the Precor stairmaster and also 30 minutes of high impact jogging on the treadmill. I notice that when I do the elliptical or the precor, the machine says I burn around 1000 calories per hour. However, running on the treadmill the amount of calories bunred is an hour is almost half that.
I don't understand this because I find that running is much harder for me and I sweat a lot more. The ellipitcal is somewhat of a challenge, but even on full resistance I never feel I can't go a minute longer like I do as I near the end of my run. If my body feels like I am working much harder on the treadmill, how am I burning all these calories on the elliptical when I don't feel I am even working my body that hard?
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