Where do YOU convert your Heart Rate to Calories?
Oxmarqt
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Just curious what other people are using. I use this site --> http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx but have always wondered how acurate it was.
Let me know what you use so I can cross check my numbers!
Let me know what you use so I can cross check my numbers!
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I look at my wrist. The watch does all the calculations for me!0
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Garmin Edge 5000
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My Polar FT7 gives me the calories.0
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Endomondo does the calc for me, but it knows my resting heart rate and my max heart rate.
Assuming you're using the VO2 max version, the calculator you reference is "good enough" given the fairly large error band on converting heart rate to calories.0 -
Just curious what other people are using. I use this site --> http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx but have always wondered how acurate it was.
Let me know what you use so I can cross check my numbers!
If you are using that, I so dearly hope you scroll down and get your net calories burned instead of putting your gross burn in.0 -
I have several phone apps synced with my Zephyr HRM, like Endomondo and iCardio. They do it for me, and I can compare them to make sure nothing is wildly off.0
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There is not a direct correlation between heart rate and caloric expenditure that is of any great significance. Obviously the heart is a muscle and the faster it beats the more calories it needs but in grand scheme of things it takes approximately the same number of calories for an unfit 200lb person to walk 2 miles as it does a fit person. (mass x distance)0
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Just curious what other people are using. I use this site --> http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx but have always wondered how acurate it was.
Let me know what you use so I can cross check my numbers!
I use this one, too. Average my non-VO2 Max and VO2 Max (estimated from my last 5K results) and calculate net calories burned. If it's a running work out, I get the "activity based calories" from their website and add that to my averaging (it tends to be a little more conservative than MFP's exercise database).
I've used this one:
http://www.calories-calculator.net/Calories_Burned_By_Heart_Rate.html
for converting, too, but haven't in a while. Not sure why I stopped...just did.0
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