Wear HRM to Body Pump class?

stuffinmuffin

Evening all,

I have started attending a body pump class to gain some strength and tone up and also ultimately improve my running.

My new heart rate monitor has arrived and whilst I know that strength training isn't a great calorie burner and HRMs are not really that accurate at measuring calories burned doing weights, I would still like to log something. (I have been previously using exercise from the MFP database coming in at around just over 100 cals for 35 mins).

Shall I wear it to the class?

BrianSharpe

I probably would but not for the reason you've listed.

I'd wear it as a way of:

1) measuring fitness improvements (ie avg hr now vs avg hr 8 or 10 weeks from now)
2) visualize (assuming you can export data and graph it) changes in recovery hr over time which is another indicator of improved cardiac fitness

JoRocka

wear it to class- body pump isn't strength training- it's cardio.

you'll be fine.

loubidy

I do. I know not to take strength training readings as totally accurate but we know we burn less calories during strength training and my HRM matches that with a relatively low reading. I like it as a guide.

Also I burned 305 in 60 minutes last week at pump

DavPul

you know you want to

stuffinmuffin

Thanks for the resposnes guys! I shall be wearing it!

omma_to_3

I have in the past, and the burn was pretty comparable to what MFP gives me by using calisthenics, light to moderate effort (it's called something like that LOL). So now I just use that. I burn around 225 calories for a 55 minute class.