How accurate are heart rate monitors?

Pearson221
Pearson221 Posts: 7 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Does anybody have a sense of how accurate heart monitors are? Do they tend to overestimate or underestimate calories burned?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Good tracking of your intake will let you know how accurate they are.
  • dlm7507
    dlm7507 Posts: 237 Member
    Two different questions here. How accurate is the monitor (max rate and average rate)? Probably pretty good. Telling you about calories, as good as the math they use. If you know your age, weight, duration of exercise, max rate and average rate you can use it in multiple places tgo see how the results vary. That calculation is modeling. A model of a thing is not the thing.

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