Heart rate monitor/calories burned question.

cheekygem240

Hi thanks for reading! I recently started working out, well for the last 2 weeks. I started the butt bible workout on youtube and its going well. I have been trying to eat the same as usual yet a little more and i have upped my protein intake. But really my aim is to eat enough back that i am burning as i dont want to lose too much fat. My brother has a heart rate monitor and i synced it up to an app on my phone tonight to have a go with it whilst doing nothing and during that 10 minutes i had burned off 26 calories so im guessing its calculating general calories burned too at the same time.

So anyways I just need some help in knowing how to calculate things as i imagine i work out more my metabolism will increase and more calories will be needed in general when not working out. Also there's calories that would have been burned anyway normally at rest like i was testing out earlier. How do i calculate this all? I cant really get my head around it so will ask for some help on here. Thankyou for any replies Much appreciated!

cheekygem240

also i am not even sure if that heart rate reading was correct because i just looked up heart rates for at rest and it said someone at 150lbs for an hour burns 68 calories...im 110lbs. So that reading is daft for a start

sijomial

cheekygem240 wrote: »

also i am not even sure if that heart rate reading was correct because i just looked up heart rates for at rest and it said someone at 150lbs for an hour burns 68 calories...im 110lbs. So that reading is daft for a start

You can't use a HRM to calculate RMR like that - as you have discovered.

Unless your workout is fairly close to steady state cardio a HRM will just give a fairly random number.

Why not just pick one of the MFP categories that closest matches your exercise and use that for an extended period. Then adjust based on actual weight lost/gained results - that's the calculation that matters.