calories you burn just living

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leahcollett1
leahcollett1 Posts: 807 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello

i was just wondering, does the exercise function automatically deduct calories you'd burn if you was just living and not exercising? say i do 60 minutes of zumba and burn 500 of them via my heart rate monitor, does this take into account or do i have to deduct this myself?

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  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
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    That depends on the HRM.
  • leahcollett1
    leahcollett1 Posts: 807 Member
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    its a polar ft4 - i dont think it does, does this mean i need to work it out myself before putting it in mfp?
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    HRMs generally report total calories so need a subtraction to get the extra expenditure of exercise.
  • leahcollett1
    leahcollett1 Posts: 807 Member
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    thanks and dam :)
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    I knock off 70 per hour or 1.2 per minute.
  • leahcollett1
    leahcollett1 Posts: 807 Member
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    thats good to know thank you, ill go back and amend x

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