Heart rate monitor

imtrying22
imtrying22 Posts: 46 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone wear their heart rate monitor all day and count daily movement as calories burnt?
How physical is your job and how much excercise do you do a day?

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  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    edited March 2016
    Heart rate monitors are only meant for steady state cardio. The calorie burn from HRM's gets increasingly inaccurate the further away from steady state cardio you get.

    I'm a stay at home mom to two boys under 5. Keeping up with them and house work puts my activity at lightly active at the very least. My Fitbit tracker is how I know that most days are at least lightly active.
    I try to make it to the gym 5-6 days a week. Typically for about 1 hour. Stronglifts 5x5 MWF and Running/other cardio TT & maybe S. If I can't get to the gym, I try to make it up with workouts at home (sometimes this means 1 hr long workout dvd and other it means several 7 min workouts throughout the day).
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Azdak/view/the-real-facts-about-hrms-and-calories-what-you-need-to-know-before-purchasing-an-hrm-or-using-one-21472
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,331 Member
    imtrying22 wrote: »
    Does anyone wear their heart rate monitor all day and count daily movement as calories burnt?
    How physical is your job and how much excercise do you do a day?

    No because that is not what HRMs are for. The formula they use is for one thing, steady state cardio, that is it. All day wear will just result in is a calorie number that is hyperinflated. If you want all day monitoring, get a fitbit or something similar.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    It will give you a wildly inaccurate calorie estimation since, as stated above, it's only for steady state cardio. Besides, your job is included in the activity level you set on MFP. If you do want a better estimation of what you burn, then you may want to consider an activity tracker. I work in retail and generally get 10-12,000 steps in an eight-hour shift.

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