Tracking calories burned during cardio

AsrarHussain

I have a heart monitor watch I was thinking of using
The cardio machines tells me how many calories I burned but I don't think it's accurate it does not ask for height or weight
Is it best to use the watch the. Compare results

malibu927

The HRM will be a bit more accurate for steady state cardio (not HIIT), but not 100%. I'd go with what it says, but still only eat back 50-75% of those calories if you do so.

TimothyFish

A HRM is probably more accurate than an exercise machine, but keep in mind that everyone is using the same data. You can't translate heartbeat into calories burned, so what a HRM does is track your intensity and then looks up that intensity in the tables.

LiveLoveRunFar

I wear my HR fitbit during exercise. There is a big difference in what it tells me as to what is on the machines that do not give you the option of putting in height, age, weight. I burn anywhere from 70-150 calories more according to the HR fitbit. The machines that let you program in the Height, age, weight give me about the same readout as the HR monitor sometimes showing a bit less but not such a wide difference.