Question about exersize and calorie burn

MissJay75

I have a mini exersize cycle I use while at the computer or watching TV as an easy way to burn more calories in addition to circuit training for endurance and strength training. The cycling is effortless, and I could do it for hours without breaking a sweat, yet everything I can find says I am burning about 225 calories an hour doing very light cycling. (including my heart rate monitor). This seems too high, and I am wondering how accurate it is. Especially considering I burn about the same amount doing 30 minutes of my circuit training which leaves me sweating, exhausted, and barely able to crawl upstairs to the shower after.

As I understand it, if I was sitting without cycling, my body would burn aprox. 100 calories per hour as my BMR. Does the 225 calories I am supposedly burning while cycling include those 100 calories I would burn anyway? Or is it in addition?

hearthemelody

It is including your BMR, and honestly those numbers make sense to me.

MissJay75

So when I log my exercise for the day, I should subtract my BMR from whatever calories my HRM says I burned?