Spinning Calories Burned Calculator
Spinning is a fun and challenging workout that replicated cycling and it can help users to both lose weight and improve their cardiovascular endurance.
What is The Calories Burned Spinning Calculator and How Does It Work?
This calculator approximates the number of calories that someone burns spinning. It also estimates calories burned per minute.
How does it do that?
Firstly, the calculator determines your metabolic rate or metabolism according to your weight.
What does that mean? Keep reading for a more detailed explanation.
If you take two people, one weighs 150 lbs and the other weighs 210 lbs, the person who weighs less will burn fewer calories during the same exact workout compared to the heavier individual.
Why is that?
A calorie is a unit of energy and a heavier person requires more energy to move their bodies or to perform activities.
Think of it like how a larger vehicle typically uses up more fuel than a smaller one. Weight affects fuel consumption (the amount of energy used).
But this also means that the heavier person expends more calories in a rested (non-exercising) state.
This is also known as metabolic rate or metabolism.
The calculator uses a formula to approximate resting calories burned and then it factors in the duration and workout intensity to guesstimate calories burned.
How To Use The Calories Burned Spinning Calculator
The calories burned spinning calculator isn’t quite as simple to use compared to a lot of our other health tools. However, it’s certainly not difficult to navigate if you keep things simple.
To ensure an easy experience for you, we’ve included step-by-step instructions in detail below.
Step 1: Choose your preferred unit of measurement: Imperial (lbs, hours, and minutes) or metric (kilograms, hours, and minutes).
Step 2: Enter your weight.
Step 3: Enter the number of spinning hours (.e.g, 1, 2, 3, etc).
Note: You can also use values under an hour. For example, .5 would be thirty minutes and .25 would be fifteen minutes. Make sure to put 0 in the minutes box or just use the minutes box in this case.
Step 4: Enter the number of spinning minutes.
Note: Because there are 60 minutes in an hour, the max number of minutes that you can enter is 59.
If the workout is under an hour, we recommend putting 0 in the hours box and entering the number of workout minutes only.
Step 5:
Select the spinning intensity. Tip: Click directly on the text (e.g., slow, normal, or fast spinning) and not the empty gray circle.
Step 6: Press Calculate!
What Is Spinning?
Spinning is a form of physical activity that involves using a spin bike (a type of stationary bike).
Unlike recumbent-style or upright exercise bikes, spin bikes more resemble the appearance and function of a racing road bike but in a stationary setup. Cyclists have traditionally used the spin bike as an alternative or training tool to replicate the cycling experience.
However, anyone can use a spin exercise bike in the comfort of their own home, and many even have built-in TV screens that allow users to follow along in virtual instructor-led sessions.
But in-person group classes are very popular around the world and many prefer the atmosphere of a gym or studio.
As for how long spin sessions last, well, it can vary as with any other form of physical activity. Typically though, the duration for a spin workout ranges from 20 to 90 minutes on average.
Spin bike design and features
Spin bikes are operated via a flywheel that is heavier than those used for standard exercise bikes. This generally requires more effort by the user and makes spin bikes more suited toward intense workout sessions such as high-intensity interval training or HIIT.
There’s also no backrest, the seat has minimal cushioning, and the bike is designed so that the user leans forward or hunches over to grip the handlebars. The pedals are reinforced to support a variety of users.
It’s also important to mention that like other cardio machines, some spin bikes offer performance displays while others do not.
How Many Calories Can I Burn Spinning?
The number of calories that you can burn during activity depends on a few different factors such as your weight, exercise intensity, and duration, or how long you perform the activity. Therefore, this can highly vary.
But that’s the point of this calculator. You punch in the necessary details and it’ll give you a close estimate of calories burned on the elliptical.
However, we’ve provided a few examples of how our calculator will estimate calories burned.
According to the calories burned spinning tool, a 125 lb person who exercises for 60 minutes or one hour at a slow speed will burn 417 calories. That’s about 6.95 calories per minute.
The same person will expend 514 calories at a normal pace and 610 calories at a fast speed.
But let’s say a 185 lb person spins for an hour at a slow speed. They will burn 618 calories. That’s estimated at 10.30 calories burned per minute.
They’d burn about 760 calories at a normal speed and 903 calories spinning fast.
As you can see, how many calories you can burn spinning or doing any activity for that matter, will depend on a few different factors.
There’s also been some research that’s found using the calorie counter on a lot of cardio machines overestimates calories burned by a significant amount.
So this is something to keep in mind especially if you’re trying to monitor your energy expenditure for weight management purposes.
For example, when comparing the discrepancies between various cardio equipment (treadmill, stationary bike, stair climber), the elliptical was the most disappointing and by a long shot. The numbers on the monitor were overestimated by 42 percent. The stationary bike overestimated by about 7 percent, which may not be a huge problem.
This was determined from a study conducted by researchers at UC San Francisco’s Human Performance Center.
Things like machine settings, elevation or incline, resistance level, form, machine design, quality, and machine age/wear and tear can affect the accuracy of measurement.
Our calculator is designed to provide a reasonable estimate of energy expenditure during spinning sessions.
Can Spinning Help Me To Lose A Lot of Weight?
Spinning is a great low-impact cardio activity that can certainly contribute to the weight loss process.
But how much weight you lose really and truly depends on your overall habits and approach to your goals.
As long as you create a calorie deficit, and do it the healthy and proper way, you can lose weight. But many decide to go about it the wrong way. They’ll eat almost nothing and exercise for hours in an effort to shed fat pounds.
This is a good way to be unhealthy and do damage that will impede your body’s ability to make progress anyway (an unhealthy body won’t function to the best of its ability). So you might as well do it in a sustainable way.
You want to first determine your maintenance calories, and then reduce your calorie intake, exercise more, or do a combination of the two.
Use our weight loss calculator to determine the number of calories you should be taking in to lose weight.
If you also weight train and want to maximize muscle gain and muscle maintenance as you knock off the body fat, our macronutrient calculator is a very useful tool.
It’ll recommend an ideal protein, carbohydrates, and fat intake for you.
Read also: The Top 20 Simple Weight Loss Tips
How Many Calories Does Spinning Burn Compared To Other Forms of Cardio?
As mentioned, there are many different variables that determine the number of calories burned between the different forms of cardio activity. Weight, intensity/pace, and duration are the biggest factors.
If you’d like to compare estimates of calories burned during various activities, we offer a free calculator that includes a database of over 250 different exercises and activities.
Also be sure to try out our other calculators below.
Get Your Spin On!
The calories burned spinning calculator is a helpful tracking tool.
Spinning is one of the best forms of cardio exercise. Not to mention, few people will find it to be a boring activity, especially when led by an instructor. Spin classes have become really popular and it’s a good choice especially for overweight individuals or those who like to mix things up.
