Hello,

I am wondering if anyone who might work out at a Curves gym has had the opportunity to use the new Curves Smart electronic equipment. I just joined a Curves about a week ago, and I'm enjoying it; it's definitely good hard work and a very easy, non-judgmental atmosphere, and lots of cheesy 70's music that I love. :-)

For those who aren't familiar, with the Smart equipment, you carry around a little card and put it into a reader in a little electronic monitor attached to each piece of equipment, and it tells you if you're working hard enough, and keeps track of your workout. Then you put it into a computer at the end of the workout and it tells you which machines you did well on, which you need to work harder on, and how many calories you burned.

But, I'm not so sure I believe the calorie numbers that the computer is telling me I burned. Today was only my 4th workout, and I worked hard, but I just don't believe I actually burned 475 calories in 30 minutes. 225 I'd believe, 475 just seems dramatically too high. Does anyone else have any experience with or knowledge of this equipment?

I am not familiar with curves equipment, but I do believe that eliptical machines always give a highly inflated calorie burn number. I wonder if the machine manufacturers want us to feel "good" with these fake numbers.

Hi there!

I was a member of my local Curves, but I stopped going, will rejoin when I have my band put in as it's th only gym I can go to where I don't feel so self conscious. I am in the UK and figuring that these machine are not here yet, they sound cool though!!