My HRM doesn't calculate calories burned

briteyes

... any idea how I can get a rough idea of my calories burned? I watched the HRM the whole time and have a good idea of my HR range, and where it sat most of the time...

I know you wanna say to get a different HRM, but this is one my hubby already had, otherwise i wouldn't have any at all... i'm going to put one on my christmas wish list though

cmriverside

there are many calculators online. Try calorielab.com

briteyes

thanks, but i'm not looking for a typical calorie calculator - MFP has that already. I'm looking to find something that will allow me to input my HR while I was working out to get a more accurate calculation of my calories burned.

cmriverside

I typed "Heart rate calories burned" into my browser bar and got 1,090,000 results.

Here is #1
caloriecount.about.com/heart-rate-calories-burned-ft75106

briteyes

i've been searching and and have also got tons of results, yet haven't found what i'm looking for. i'll take a look at what you found. thanks

cmriverside

www.triathlontrainingblog.com/post/calories-burned-calculator-based-on-average-heart-rate

www.ehow.com/how_5594817_calculate-burned-based-heart-rate.html

www.livestrong.com/article/73315-calculate-calories-burned-based-heart

alth.discovery.com/centers/cholesterol/activity/activity.html


These look promising. It's not an exact science! Take the numbers from several sites and use an average. No one can tell you the exact number, even with a heart rate monitor that DOES give calorie burns, the numbers are based on averages of others similar to you. That is all any of us have.

briteyes

thanks, I'm not looking for exact science, just an estimate i will let my hubby know i need a different HRM

the site you gave me above, i was there, too. it wants to know my VO2max and i don't know what that is!!! so it won't be accurate w/ out that figure. i'll check out these links

cmriverside

Good luck. :flowerforyou:

briteyes

thanks

k, so MFP says I burned 277 cals, and two calculators say i burned 338 and 538.... maybe i'll do an avg of all 3 to come out to:

384 cals burned. i know it's not gonna be accurate, but i was at my max HR for most of the 30 mins... at some points i was well over 100% max for a few minutes straight! so i know i have some calories burned there...

cmriverside

That's what I did for the first 40 lbs of my weight loss. I think it's more important to reign in the eating than worry about 100-200 calories one way or the other.

hewhoiscd

I use

http://www.triathlontrainingblog.com/calculators/calories-burned-calculator-based-on-average-heart-rate/

I don't know my VO2 max either, I just use 35 like the site suggests.