When do you stop counting the calories burned during a particular exercise?

fruitsalad15

Hi there,

I was just wondering when people say that they have stopped exercising? I don't think I am explaining what I mean very well so I'll try to be more clear! I use a HRM to measure calories burnt and I stop it after the cool down and say 'right, I've burnt 205 calories in that 25 minutes' however the HRM will still tell me that my heart rate is 65% so technically I'm still burning more calories. I just see these as 'bonus' calories though!

Is this afterburn? I thought afterburn was the calories you burn at rest because you have exercised.

At what point do you say you have stopped working out? Is it before the cool down? After the cool down? When your heart rate goes back to normal? I don't think I'm doing anything particularly wrong and I don't eat back ALL my exercise calories anyway (just to be sure!) but I was just curious what other people do!

Have a great Thursday!

sijomial

I stop it when my HR gets back under 100bpm or alternatively just before I get in the shower!

stuffinmuffin

I stop my HRM when the workout is over and I leave the room/gym it happened in! Normally when my HR is just under 100bpm too as Si has said above.
If there's a cool down/stretch after a class - then after that, and from the gym it's on leaving the room (I walk home and stretch at home and that's not recorded on the HRM).

leggup

Stop counting when you stop working out. Eat back your exercise calories. If you lose too fast/too slow, adjust what % you eat back.