Best Heart Rate Monitor for Tracking Calories Burned

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  • gagajenks
    gagajenks Posts: 25 Member
    Heart rate monitors only come close to estimating calories burned for a narrow range of steady state cardio activities. Lifting weights, intervals of any kind, yoga, dancing, etc are not among those activities where HRMs accurately estimate caloric burns.

    What exercise could you recommend to a new comer who is aiming to improve her fitness levels.

    Any exercise that you are willing to do on a continual basis is good. Lift, run, cycle, swim ... whatever gets you moving.

    Thanks Brian, much appreciate you taking time out to give me advice. :)

    Jjust don't expect a HRM to provide an accurate calorie estimate for them all. All a HRM does is count heart beats and plug that into a formula derived from lab tests of people doing certain activities .. mostly running or cycling. The device cannot differentiate between an elevated heart rate from running, watching a scary movie, sex, or a roller coaster.
  • dempseymom4
    dempseymom4 Posts: 35 Member
    I had a Polar FT7 and like it but traded up for the Polar Loop with the bluetooth hrm and LOVE IT
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