Can this stationary bike reading possibly be correct?

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Philmac

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I'm a 23 year old male who weighs approximately 150 pounds and is 5'9" tall. I use a dual action stationary bike to do my cardio in sessions of 60 minutes. The thing is, after 60 minutes of low intensity exercise (approximately 65% maximum heart rate) the bike says that I've burnt 600 calories. Is this possible? 600 calories at low intensity after just an hour? The bike doesn't let me input any information; I've been told that machines with no inputs base their readings on a 154 pound male, so I don't expect it to be wildly inaccurate, but 600 calories in just one hour seems way too high.
 
Take the reading with a grain of salt. Without age, weight height and an idea of how fit you already are, the machine's math is just a crude guess.

Note I added "current fitness level". Athletes are more efficient at storing and burning calories than 'average people'. I might burn more or fewer calories than Lance Armstrong, on the same bike ride, with the same bicycle.

I'm more an advocate of jsut "getting cardio done, keeping it changed up" so its not boring. Since the heartrate is accurate, you could set a goal for more distance, same max heart rate, in teh same amount of time...vs. goals of 'calories burned'.
 
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