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    cepwin's Avatar Junior Member
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    I did a 13-15 minute routine of low-impact (bridget ??) and it said I burned 27 calories. I consulted a calorie counter and it said 13 minutes of low impact is about 50 calories burned. Now I did run into a few exercises where I had problems staying "in-sync" so I got a low score. It seems that if you don't stay in-sync it doesn't record you calories correctly. How does this work? How accurate are you finding the calorie recording?
    Thanks!
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    im having the same problem...with my heart beating fast for so long and me repeating workouts.. other fitness people i know tell me thats a great way to burn more calories then stopping and allowing your heartbeat to slow down...
    so i don't stop in yourshape..i KNOW i have burned more then ten calories while doin something!
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    I've been using the Wii Shape since Jan. My workout today said i burned 689 calories. I was a jogger for years, then switched to an elliptical and later added the Wii. I can say that i feel like i burned that many if i compare them to the other forms of exercise. You dont burn that many just jogging, but, you arent using all your muscles like you do in these exercises. It does matter if you put everything into it too, that just makes sense. Like, sometimes when it tells me to skip up and back, if its at the end of the workout and i'm pooped, i'll do it without a hop. At the end i take off some of the total calorie tally for my laziness. I think to earn the total calories burned, you have to put everything you have into it.
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    Absolutely cowgirl! And yes, that's what I was focused on and I thought I was doing that. I'll have to try it again...one thing that might have been messing me up is I did a "body pump" class at my gym the day before and my triceps were complaining big time hampering my arm movements.
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    I have Your Shape FE with Kinect, and this may be different. However, I can't see how the Calorie counter could possibly be accurate. For example, when I do the boxing practice game, it advises me to use hand weights to increase the intensity of the workout, but there is no way to indicate that I am using those weights. Clearly, the calories burned is going to be vastly different depending on whether I am using weights or not, yet it will give me the same calories.

    When I am trying to count calories, I use my Polar heart monitor and use its calorie counter.
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    It's totally inaccurate. When I did gym games-> breaking boxes (or whatever), in one occasion I was very active and made 1200 points, it gave me 9 calories. In the next game I made 120 points, with significantly lower intensity (about 10 times lower), it gave me the same 9 calories. It's simply average estimation of the intensity of given activity. Say Zen classes burn less calories than cardio, but it doesn't mean that you can't do some lousy cardio and burn less then Tai chi master in Zen exercises. It's just rough approximation, and kind of game score.
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    In regards to the calorie counter:

    For Your Shape Fitness Evolved, we really wanted to focus on a handsfree experience. Also, we had a fitness coach staffed on our team full time that helped the game designers with the calorie count. What we did was measure how many calories each move was worth. Combined with the weight and age of the person (input at the beginning of the game), we can then determine with more precision the calories they will burn during their workout.
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    I unlocked the Bollywood played that for 1.5 hrs and only burned about 84 calories..REALLY
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    I just purchased your shape featuring Jenny McCarthy. This is great for people who are age 60 and younger and moderately in good shape. Are there plans in the works for a modfied version of your shape for the Geriatric population which is an area of the consumer market you are truly missing out on? They are the baby boomer who are more active and in better shape than our sedentary youth. Retirement for them is truly their second youth. An exercise program that focus on exercises that can be performed standing, sitting in a chair and in a wheelchair. I should know I am a therapist and work with them every day and they are on the move and they want to keep moving.
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    I find it majorly off in terms of calories burned. I'm 44 and 200lbs..After using 2 different heart monitors to check, and running through a variety of routines for 45 mins per session, YS:FE says I only burn about 200-240 calories when the Heart monitors say its closer to about 600 calories. Its kind of consistent at only giving me about 30% of what the Heart monitor says I'm burning.
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