james G asked:


I’ve read on many posts people burn 400-500 calories on their treadmill while power walking for around 30mins. I switch between jogging and power walking and burn around 100 in 30 mins(according to the calorie reader).

Why does my treadmill’s calorie reader show a lower number?

One Response to “Why do different treadmills give different calorie readings?”

1. chinmusic851 on May 29th, 2006 5:14 pm

   When I ran on a treadmill I used a low incline and fairly easy setting and the machine showed that I burned about 120 calories in that time. If you add a steep incline and ratchet up the difficulty, I could see it being 3-4 times that. If I had done that intense of a workout my heart probably would have exploded.