WATCH HEART RATE MONITORS??

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  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited June 2015
    Hornsby wrote: »
    mikeyrs wrote: »
    If you're not eating back your burned calories, but rather focused upon reducing your resting heart rate, monitoring your maximum heart rate, or doing heart rate zone or HIIT trainng, an HRM will be useful. If you're tryng to increase the number of calories you can consume through eating back exercise calories, that's a very slippery slope for those seeking to lose weight. Most avid cyclists and runners I know, do not pay much attention to the number of calories burned. With burn calculations showing burns often exceeding 1000 calories and even approaching 3000 calories, one should immediately realize these athletes would wither away to nothing and eventually collapse in a relatively short period of time. Don't purposely eat back your burned calories. You will become quite disappointed and frustrated if you do.

    You realize that you are basically saying not to do what MFP is designed to do, don't you?

    What MFP is "designed" to do is irrelevant - the way most use it leads to big errors and "inexplicable" weight loss stalls.

    Best rule to follow - until you're fit enough to actually run 5k, don't even bother counting exercise burn, because in all likelihood it will just introduce another source of error into your logging process.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited June 2015
    simply_bubbz wrote: »
    Hearts_2015 wrote: »
    simply_bubbz wrote: »
    I have been considering purchasing a watch heart rate monitor 2 track burned calories and my heart rate when going for walks and runs and strength training..Are they pretty accurate?? Anyone prefer a certain kind? More answers the better!

    I purchased a Polar FT4 and am very pleased with it... had it for several years now and got it at a great price. Compare prices online and you can a good deal with a code on some sites. I ended up finding a Sears sale price online and they allowed me to purchase it locally for the same price. $49

    all the best finding the one that fits your needs :)

    Is it pretty accurate?

    I've had an FT4 for donkey's years. Once I was fit enough to run moderate distances, the burn numbers were pretty good. When I started, they were big over-estimates. I also experimented with tracking other forms of exercise, and the reported numbers were comically over the top big.
  • ruthbardell
    ruthbardell Posts: 76 Member
    redpandora56 wrote: »
    I'm waiting for the Forerunner 225 to be available in the UK next month. Sick of chest strap HRMs, I feel like I breathe better without them, which may be in my head but I'd still prefer to rid of it. and the 225 is going to use the Mio HRM which gets good reviews for accuracy. I have a vivofit but don't really use it aside to put it on for runs and sync my HRM for it because I'm actually not worried about steps/sleep, I just like activity tracking. So, rather than run with my phone for GPS and pacing cues, interval beeper for interval training, vivofit just to support HRM tracking, going to pack it all in for the 225 once it's out.

    The forerunner 225 is out in the UK - in runnersneed only at the moment I think. I got mine just over a week ago and I love it

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