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Question about HRM Math

anna1m
anna1m Posts: 29 Member
edited February 10 in Fitness and Exercise
so even while I am sitting on the couching watching tv I am burning calories required to live. When I work out, my HRM calculates how many calories I burning within that training period. Are the calories it is calculating while I am working out my regular calorie requirement for living plus the extra calories I am burning while training, or is it somehow calculating just the training calories.

For example, if I require 1800 calories to live and burn 300 calories while working out, is it :

1800-300 =1500 net
or
1800-300 = 1612.5 net since I would have burned 112.5 calories just sitting on my *kitten* anyway for the 1.5 hours

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  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    The first one. The HRM guesstimates gross calorie burns, it doesn't subtract out BMR. They aren't really all that accurate anyway, so you're kind of over thinking it.
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