HRM for 24 hours

hpsnickers1

I have never done this before but figured since my HRM seems to be a good one I would try it. I wore it for about 24 hours. My HR signal messed up last night so I missed about 5 minutes. And I paused it and took a shower this morning - too scared of killing the HRM. The time total came to 23 hours so I just counted 60 calories burned in an hour since the average calories burned just resting for me is one calorie per minute. (Actually 1.03).

When I figured my resting calories they came to 1483 and MFP has my BMR set at 1480. The numbers are just estimates so I figure MFP is right on with the BMR

To figure resting calories (this only applies to Heart Rate Monitors and ones that don't take into account calories that would've been burned anyway- don't know if any of them are like that):
Take your BMR and divide by number of minutes in a day (1440) (mine comes to 1.03)
Take the number of minutes doing the activity (60 minutes) and multiply that by your number result (60*1.03= 61.08 or 61 calories). Subtract that number from the number of calories burned doing the activity (300-61 = 239 actual activity burn).

So I did this with the total day. I burned a total of 2327 calories in 1440 minutes.
1440 * 1.03 = 1483.2 (see? close - calories I would've burned anyway).
2327 - 1483 = 844 (I burned a total of 844 doing things other than just resting). And yesterday was a lazy day. I didn't exercise. I didn't have to cook dinner. I didn't walk a lot during the day.

This might seem a little anal but I can be a bit anal. I have a tendency to try and be as exact as I can when numbers are involved. This issue has been sheer hell for me trying to count calories and nutrients. But it was an interesting experiment.

UpToAnyCool

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thanks hpsnickers1

hpsnickers1

Welcome. And I'm sure there will be people saying HRM's are for logging exercise only and all of that. That is what I normally do with it. But what is our day but a bunch of ongoing activities? I did it out of curiosity.