Do you use heart rate monitor for exercising? which one?

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  • skyhowl
    skyhowl Posts: 206 Member
    edited August 2016
    RoseTheWarrior wrote: »
    I use the Polar A360, but since all HRMs are for steady state cardio, if you do anything other than that, reduce your expectations of accuracy.

    Yeah, i only use mine on running sessions, walking.. So on. But i can't help myself from thinking about doing an experiment and keeping the HRM all day. Just to see what i would get.. Wonder if anyone tried something similar with HRM with chest straps
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    Psychgrrl wrote: »
    So, I lost money with Polar--been over a year and a half and I've never heard from them.
    Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with Polar. I started getting erratic readings on my H7 so I contacted their support after changing the battery and resetting the device. I sent my unit in and they sent me a replacement unit in less than two weeks. They said that the monitor has a two year warranty. All told, I lost about a month of data by the time it was sorted out.
  • skyhowl
    skyhowl Posts: 206 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    skyhowl wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Polar FT7 - used it while losing weight and getting fitter. Probably overestimated by about 15 - 20%.
    Most people with under average fitness levels are going to get an overestimate.
    Still ate all my exercise calories, you just simply adjust your calorie goal based on actual results over time - consistency and willingness to make adjustments beats accuracy!

    Polar FT60 - seems really accurate when calibrated with my tested VO2 max and max HR settings. Agrees almost perfectly with expensive power meter equipped trainers.

    Garmin Edge 800 for cycling - underestimates calories burned. Badly underestimates on lower intensity rides as I can produce reasonably good power output at low HR.

    Why could it overestimate for people under average fitness level? Iam asking because i can probably say i am not really fit.. I don't know if i am below average though.
    My readings is way off from MFP calculator. Lower not higher.

    Because typically unfit people have a higher exercise HR than someone the same age/height/weight who is fit - doesn't mean they are burning more calories but the HRM would interpret it that way.

    Imagine a super fit 200lb person walking up stairs next to a really unfit 200lb person. One would find it easy, one hard work, one with a low HR, one with a high HR.

    But they would be burning the virtually same amount of calories (mass moved over distance).

    That makes sense, thanks for explaining.

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