Can I wear my HRM to work?

madrose0715

Re: work as exercise - I work on a farm and believe me - my heart rate is elevated over 100 all day except when I take a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks. I lift trees, shrubs, cinderblocks, etc...I walk a 15 acre farm, all day long. Yes - work is exercise.

HOWEVER - I do not count my work as exercise nor did I get the impression that is what the OP was going to do.

OP - I wore my HRM to work all day once - it tracked well over 3000 cals. Interestingly enough, using the heybales calculator to figure out my TDEE - the numbers were pretty close. Which was a good discovery for me. It gave me some solid evidence that my HRM and the calculator seem to be as accurate as much as man-made tools can be and gives me a gauge to work with. As my activity level fluctuates during the season, I can adjust my TDEE pretty easily in my head now.

__Di__

I have to disagree with those who say that this work isnt exercise. Daycare is not an office job nor is it a normal teaching job. You are active all day long - getting up, sitting down, squatting, dancing, running, walking, climbing. If you are a good daycare teacher, you are constantly following around and actively playing with a classroom full of as many as 16 kids all below the age of 5. I guarantee working in daycare for 8 hrs is better then a 20 minute walk. a landscaper or a construction worker doesn't get exercise while at work?

Unfortunately, this still will not make the FT4 Polar HRM suitable for wearing all day. The manufacturers will also state that it is only meant to be used during cardio workouts whereby the heartrate is elevated. It will become inaccurate to any heartrates below 120bpm.

wilsoje74

Re: work as exercise - I work on a farm and believe me - my heart rate is elevated over 100 all day except when I take a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks. I lift trees, shrubs, cinderblocks, etc...I walk a 15 acre farm, all day long. Yes - work is exercise.

HOWEVER - I do not count my work as exercise nor did I get the impression that is what the OP was going to do.

OP - I wore my HRM to work all day once - it tracked well over 3000 cals. Interestingly enough, using the heybales calculator to figure out my TDEE - the numbers were pretty close. Which was a good discovery for me. It gave me some solid evidence that my HRM and the calculator seem to be as accurate as much as man-made tools can be and gives me a gauge to work with. As my activity level fluctuates during the season, I can adjust my TDEE pretty easily in my head now.

She said she was going to use it rather than get up early to exercise.

toutmonpossible

As some others have said, it's designed to be used during intense cardio activity. I once played with mine, trying to use it for biofeedback and as lie detector.

If you want an all day activity monitor, get something like a Fitbit. I had one,and it was very motivating, especially when I wasn't able to exercise.

BigDnSW

SuperWife is a Kindergarten teacher. She wears a Fitbit Ultra to work but switches to an ePulse2 when she works out. She only records the workouts. But it is amazing what she burns during the day with the kiddos...Damn proud of her in every way for a very long time.