Good iOS app for calorie estimate from heart rate monitor?

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CalZach
CalZach Posts: 5 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi there,
there are lots of apps for cycling and running that take the output from a heart rate monitor and use that for a more accurate assessment of calories burned, will these give a decent assessment when I do a kettlebell workout or are there better more general exercise apps for that?

thanks in advance

CZ

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  • CalZach
    CalZach Posts: 5 Member
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    Nobody doing this?

    Any thoughts very welcome :-)
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
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    Heart rate is not a meaningful proxy for calorie expenditure when you're doing exercise where there are rapid transitions in HR and you're working anaerobically.

    You'll get as much accuracy from just putting the duration straight into MFP.
  • CalZach
    CalZach Posts: 5 Member
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    Ah, ok that's good to know. Thanks MeanderingMammal

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