Charge HR overestimates my burns. Will changing

CoachJen71

my heart rate settings help with the too high calorie burn?

I have already compensated somewhat by making myself shorter on my profile, but that doesn't affect the band sometimes more than doubling my heart rate count. I do override the exercise blocks on days when the burn is too high, but was just wondering if changing the heart rate zones might calm this thing down in the same way that setting for dominant hand did.

heybales

Nope - the HR zones are merely for goals during and review after exercise.

It doesn't effect calorie burn.

If you have bogus HR beats being seen (always heard of low, never high.

Or do you mean the calorie burn seems doubled?

The calculation calorie burn from HR uses your BMI, resting HR, calculated HRmax, and your workout frequency/duration.

So a BMI at correct height seen as perhaps healthy, with a shorter height entered would be seen as a BMI that is high and unhealthy.

But that should be balanced out by restingHR (if it's low) and workout schedule (if it's good).

But just straight out, an inflated BMI because height is entered shorter than reality - would mean a HR of say 140 would appear to burn so many calories, but with higher BMI it thinks you are burning more.

Double? eh, I wouldn't think double though.

CoachJen71

Thanks, Haybales. I mean double heart rate. I can be walking laps up and down my hall and get a reading of 140bpm on my unit, but checking the old fashioned way gives me 70. (Rhr is in the 40s/50s, and I walk a few hours each day plus hike most weekends.)

I just see green bars worth 75-85 cals that I know are just too a high a burn for walking up and down a hallway (4-5 cals/min.) At 62.5" and 123lbs, I could burn that jogging or hiking, but not reading my phone shuffling back and forth in my house. Guess I will just keep looking out for too generous bars and overwrite them with walking at 2.5/3mph.

heybales

Oh wow. With traditional HRM's you can have static electric issues that cause greatly inflated like that.

But for light based - you must be having an interesting double beat effect it's catching. Not a health issue generally, just a strong heart.

CoachJen71

Not sure what is causing it, but it is darned annoying having to overwrite my walks. Nice to consider that I might have a strong heart, though! I recently had a medical procedure where a nurse, who was monitoring my vitals as I lay there, asked if my rhr was always down in the 40s.