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I'm alright with either use now, just a curiosity since I've recently seen it used lately (not just here), it's as if one day everyone was using "cals", then they suddenly switched to "kcals"; but...

Yeah, I read it and basically it boils down to semantics, cal and kcal are equivent. Excerpts from the link:

The calorie is a pre-SI metric unit of energy. It was first defined by Nicolas Clément...

If people fall for those tactics our problem isn't the companies making money off them; it's that those people make up the population. I hope they don't vote:D

Fat people forcing the U.S. Coast Guard to revise capacity numbers for ferries and other boats, i.e. Tourist vessels, etc......

I've been incorporating some of these things in my workouts and some of them are pretty tough; a very good combination of strength (including explosive strength, which many people don't work on),...

I have no understanding of what you're saying, will have to read up on, just out of curiosity, because I've always heard calories burned per day, not kilocalories, especially 2500 kcals (2,500,000...

BTW JAK, this is the chart http://mizfitonline.com/2010/07/29/target-heart-rate-training-guest-post/ I was talking about WRT zones and they're all dependent on your maximum HR. Problem with me is...

See there's another one; that would equal 2,500,000 calories. Should be written either as 2500 cals or 2.5 kcals. Unless I'm missing something in your answer. I'm so confused....:confused:

Yeah, I thought it was probably just a typo, but I've seen it so many times in other places that I thought maybe I was missing something.


BTW, you ever had your max HR measured? I'm kind of...

What does the "k" stand for?

I've seen other people use this in a similar fashion, but the only thing I can think of is "kilo", the metric prefix for 1,000, but it would make those numbers really...