HRM calories burned during high resting heart rate

marymickaela
marymickaela Posts: 190 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hope this isn't too confusing.

I worked out this morning at the gym with my trainer for about an hour doing cardio, weights and strength trainingr. I'm 62 and in order to burn fat I'm supposed to increase my heart rate to 104 to 135, which I did. Right after the workout my HRM stated I'd burned a little under 500 calories. I usually will let my heart rate return to under 104 before counting calories burned. Well for whatever reason my heart rate stayed at approx. 115 for the next hour. My resting heart rate is around 87. Can I count the calories burned when my heart rate was in the 115 range or just during my workout? If I count them they were over 600.

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  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    You can count them or not count them. It's up to you. Some people will log with warm up and cool down. I usually just logged the workout specifically, but then I would eat back all my exercise calories while losing. If you eat them all back and don't lose, you may find you're kind of just giving yourself slightly more leeway than you need, but if you're hungry, go ahead and count them and eat them. It's going to depend on the person.

    If you're set up to lose half a pound weekly, you're only getting a 250 calorie deficit daily, so dipping into that (or potentially dipping into it) by logging that cool-down period may negatively influence your results.

    If, however, you're set up to lose 2 lbs/week, you're already set up to have a 1000 calorie daily deficit, so the extra 100 isn't going to make a huge dent.

    It's your call.
  • marymickaela
    marymickaela Posts: 190 Member
    I'm choosing to not report them, but it was just so weird to have my heart rate stay so high.
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    Your heart rate can be affected by external or internal factors. If it was warmer when you worked out it could stay higher, or you could be coming down with something... or you could be dehydrated. Just a few things off the top of my head. Hopefully it's nothing.
  • GetSoda
    GetSoda Posts: 1,267 Member
    Heart rate doesn't indicate calories burned. It's just the only thing a HRM can monitor. If your HRM says 115, it thinks you are doing something to make your heart go to 115. So you can count them if you want, but you weren't really burning extra calories.
  • StellaHarmon
    StellaHarmon Posts: 34 Member
    When you do high intensity workouts your heart rate will stay higher and your metabolism will be fired up for up to 24 hours after your work out. This is the after burn affect, and is generally due to lifting weights. You got a good workout today =)

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