Calorie burn AFTER a run?

Running_and_Coffee

I wear a Garmin forerunner 235, which has me at about 100 calories per mile, more or less. This jives with previous Garmins I've worn and when I've run with a heart rate monitor. Now that I have a Garmin that tracks my heart rate all day long, though, I see that it gives me an extra 100 or so calories about an hour after I run, even though I'm not in the exercise mode. Like this morning, I burned 295 calories from running, another 75 from abs and other floor exercises I did after the run, and then after I hit "stop," it showed me burning about another 100 calories this morning when I was just showering, eating breakfast and getting my kids ready for camp. Is this "afterburn"? My HR probably is a little elevated for an hour or so afterwards (I was sweating after my shower--it is HOT out!)

BrianSharpe

I wouldn't count on that as being accurate, while almost any exercise has a bit of EPOC an elevated heart rate does not mean additional calories being expended. I'd also take any calories estimate for anything other than steady state cardio with a grain of salt.

I'm a big Garmin fan (currently using a 920xt) but don't give the all day monitoring much credence (except, perhaps, if it were doing a small calories adjustment based on steps)

Running_and_Coffee

Thanks, I'll take the burn with a grain of salt! I don't eat back exercise calories any way, was just really curious! Most of my steps were from the run, so I think it was probably just based on HR.

dewd2

Also, it is mostly useless at calculating your other exercise. It is good for steady state cardio like running. Not so much for ab work.

NorthCascades

Garmin has specialized software that predicts your EPOC from cardiovascular exercise, but it's used for recovery and training load, not for calories.