Any help would be appreciated!! HRM CLUELESSNESS

Jaffsa

Hello! I posted this before, but the 1 response I got did not help me....at all... haha
So I'm reaching out again now that I have been more active on the site :blushing:
Fingers crossed....here we go!!


I bought a HRM watch (crappy CVS brand) to try to get a better calorie count during my workouts rather than using MFP's estimates (which I heard were over-estimated..). I wasn't sure if I was figuring this out right....
On a typical day here is what I do-
Take my heart rate before workout begins- record it
then every minute/after a part of a circuit, I get a heart rate reading and record it.
Then a final reading at the end of the work out.
From there, I add them all together then divide by how many readings I got (getting the average)- then I plug it into this: http://www.calories-calculator.net/Calories_Burned_By_Heart_Rate.html and get how many calories I burned during that work out....
Does that make sense? Am I doing this right???
My HRM isn't advanced, so I cannot figure out how many calories I actually burn. I tried google-ing any sort of answer for this with no luck.
I feel like a complete idiot.
Someone please help me before I make a bigger fool out of myself than I already have.
....kind of embarrassing.... ha.

PS Feel free to add me as a friend!!!

kerrymaas

That seems like a lot of work...try these links: http://www.acaloriecalculator.com/calories-burned-calculator/

http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/fitness/xfile.jsp?item=/quiz/burn/burnquiz-new&ordersrc=bingsearch68450Calories-Burned

They are both free and easy to use...to accurately count calories burned you need to consider body weight, age, gender, specific exercise and amount of time spent doing the exercise.

Hope this helps...