Heart Rate monitor & Calories

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azeria
azeria Posts: 535 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi,

I've recently purchased a HRM and I leave it on throughout the day. It's the watch style. According to it, I am supposed to aim at burning 3500 calories per day. The first day I wore it I burnt over 5000 calories.

My question is, where do I enter all these calories? Am I supposed to? How?

Thanks for your help

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  • peggybrant
    peggybrant Posts: 144 Member
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    well Mfp FIGUREs out your Base and w hen you told it if you were sedentary, active, etc that took care of the rest of them so at that point you just have to add in your exercise.
  • RUNN3Rmom
    RUNN3Rmom Posts: 441
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    I recently read that it is not accurate if you wear it as a daily calorie burn tracker. I was told it is used for tracking calories burned during exercising only.

    Would like to know what others think.
  • adhillman01
    adhillman01 Posts: 206
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    I don't think HRM are built to be worn all day to get a calorie count. A BodyBugg or Body Media is designed for that. HRM are meant to track HR and calories burned during exercise. The chances that you burned 5000 calories in a day are pretty slim unless you ran a marathon. It doesn't sound accurate to me.

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