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Heart based calorie burn calculator

StencilChild
StencilChild Posts: 60 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I found this website with a calorie burn calculator, compared it to my hrmmm (Polar ft7), and surprising enough, was pretty close. Difference of 100 calories during a 2.5hour walk+circuit training.

Just curious how accurate these things really are.

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.shtml

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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Maybe that site uses the same/similar algorithm as Polar?

    Doesn't make it accurate of course - especially for walking and circuit training. The estimates based on HR are highly unlikely to be accurate for those activities.

    My FT7's calorie estimates were out by between 10 - 20% even for more suitable exercise such as steady state cardio at a reasonable intensity.
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