Personal Trainer Session vs Mine

medavidcook
medavidcook Posts: 129 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello All MFP

I recently did a pt session that lasted an hour and my FT7 HRM watch showed i burned around 940cals.

However over that last couple of days, i have been doing the same workout that i did with the PT and seem to be done in 45 mins and only burn 470ish cals

I am doing everything the same order and the same intensity.

Anyone have any ideas why they differ so much

Thanks

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  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Would I be correct in thinking that this workout does not involve a lot of steady state cardio?

    If so, I would suggest that the problem lies largely in the fact that HRM are notoriously unreliable for anything other than steady state cardio when it comes to estimating caloric expenditure.
  • medavidcook
    medavidcook Posts: 129 Member
    Well the day went like this

    10min interval bike session level 7
    then moved to doing some stretches
    machine exercise consisited of 3 x 20 sets of pulldown,pectoral machine and low row
    during the sets was doing 20 up and over box steps.

    then did 30 sec planks with 15 secs rest between, 5 sets.
    did 3x15 hip raise with box steps again.

    followed by 5mins cooldown walk on treadmill

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