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Help, forgot to change heartrate monitor weight!

rowlandk
Posts: 146 Member
So I recently had a baby and started working out again. I wear something called a MyZone heart rate monitor to tell me how many calories I burn. I worked out the past three nights at Kosama (kickboxing, etc) but had forgotten to reset my heartrate monitor to my current weight (which is obviously higher right after having a baby), so it was off by about 55 pounds. My question, did I burn more than my heartrate monitor said because it had the wrong weight information or was it still correct since it was monitoring my heartrate?
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Just change it and forget about what you did in the past. You're overthinking this.0
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I was just curious. . . . not really overthinking.0
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I typically update my weight if it's more than 5 lbs off. Of course you do burn more when you weigh more. That's just science. You're moving more mass around.0
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Yes, you would burn more at a heavier weight but not much you can do about that now. It's only 3 days, it won't make a difference.0
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