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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Exercise

We asked exercise physiologist Will Drexler to tackle your most common questions about fitness. Q: How accurate are the calorie-burning counters on cardio machines? A: Not very. They tend to overestimate calorie burn by a fair amount — up to 30 percent, depending on the machine. Stationary bikes, treadmills, and machines that allow you to enter your weight tend to be more accurate; ellipticals generally exaggerate results. To determine how many calories you can burn...

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