Question about the Polar Ft60

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arlenem1974
arlenem1974 Posts: 437 Member
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I have a question about the Polar ft60. I have my mfp set at 1340 calories a day. It says I burn 1840 calories from daily activity If my polar ft60 says I burn 2400 calories in 24 hours does that mean if I want to eat back all my exercise calories I can eat 560?

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    most HRMs are intended to measure calorie burn during exercise ie with elevated heart rate, I wouldn't think it to be accurate over 24 hours.

    Usually people use their HRM to measure exercise sessions and log that in MFP, noting that the HRM calorie burn includes the ~75 kcal/h that MFP has already accounted for. So if it clocked 375 in an hour's exercise you would log 300 and eat that back (or some/most of it).

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