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PHILBERT
01-24-2002, 07:55 PM
http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/activity/activity.html

I was cruising the net and found that thing. I dont know how true it is, but it says if I sit on my ass for 24 hours, I burn 2500 calories. Doesn't seem right to me, oh well.

IronFist
01-24-2002, 08:06 PM
That is wrong. Everyone metabolism is completely unique. Some people burn a ton of calroies no matter what they do, others hardly burn any even when doing hardcore cardio.

A calorie burning counter is a bad idea, unless people are using it just to get a rough, rough estimate.

Iron

SevenStar
01-24-2002, 08:09 PM
I dunno if you'll burn 2500, but you will burn some. What that thing doesn't take into account is activity level of the individual and their metabolism rate, and the ratio of fat to muscle. it takes energy to sustain muscle, so a person with bigger muscles like me would burn more than say, WaterDragon and Fa_jing, who are smaller than me.