Concept2 Forum

300 kCal/h is the supposed amount of heat generated by staying alive, shuttling up and down the slide, lifting your knees, wiggling your ears and everything else that doesn't go into the handle. 4 is our supposed efficiency seen as fuel cells: the chemistry is exothermic and the guess, if that's wh...

Hi Alyssa- Sounds like calories could work this way, if calculated on this basis, however the manual for the PM2 & PM2+ and the on-line use description for those two monitors provides: Quote: A Word About Calories: Due to the differences in body weight and efficiency, calories on the PM2 are only an...

This is a long ignored thread, but I thought I would jump in and clarify the issue of calories. On a rowing machine, calories expended does NOT depend on weight. A calorie is unit of WORK i.e. how much energy did it take to move the flywheel during the time measured. Another measure is the WATT, whi...