Under The Desk Bike Calories Burned

Go to the settings tab and select your bike model sex height weight and age.

Under the desk bike calories burned.

Calorie monitors aren t always so accurate to begin with and the deskcyle owner s manual says the counts are closest if you re pedaling on the highest resistance so i did a little fact checking. These settings are used in the calorie calculation. I only burned 473 calories over the course of the workweek. That s a pound extra lost in 7 weeks which may not sound like much but is pretty good when you consider that you haven t had to give up a single chocolate or pint.

Best news of all for those wanting to lose weight the under desk cyclists burned an extra 107 calories each day which adds up to more than 500 calories a week. The study found that the average participant in the study burned 10 3 calories per minute pedaling while seated. So if you want to get a deskcycle to lose weight or burn calories you might be disappointed. I have a desk job and recently bought an exercise cycle to go under my desk.

Under desk bikes can help keep your blood flowing and burn calories while you work watch tv or any time that you re sitting. A few minutes of pedaling on difficulty level 3 or 4 and i warmed up enough to work coat free while my coworkers hunkered down under scarves and blankets. They can also be used by grabbing onto the pedals and working out your arms and the units can be used in reverse as well to work different muscles. By that time the monitor on the deskcycle said i had burned 1 485 calories and ridden 40 5 miles.

While the manufacturers of both under desk bikes and ellipticals claim a calorie burn of up to 300 calories per hour a more realistic result may be in the 100 calories per hour range a study published in the american journal of preventive medicine provided office workers with an under desk pedal exerciser for 16 weeks. I literally cycle for usually 6 7 hours every day. But using the deskcycle changed that. Researchers for the american council on exercise performed a study comparing the calories burned on an exercise bike while seated versus standing.

Over the course of a 30 minute session this would work out to a 309 calorie burn. I use the online calculator that is supplied by the manufacturer mine is a deskcycle. How to reset the display the calorie calculator uses the time and distance from the display to estimate calories burned.