Subtracting cals from HRM?

ErrataCorrige

I am getting closer to my goal weight and have had some big plateaus. I have always logged my calories straight from my HRM, but I used to do pretty vigorous things in a short time (500 cals in 55 minutes). My works outs are now longer but less intense (900 calories over 3 or 4 hours).

I am wondering how many of you subtract your assumed resting calories from your HRM totals, since MFP already accounts for this?

I know my resting cals are right around 65 cal/hour.

akaTheQueen

I have been wondering this as well. . . does calories burned account for resting calories?

CandeesLand

I subtract my resting cals about 1.24 per minute based on my BMR from the calories I burn while exercising, because if I exercise for 45 mins and burn 400 cals, I would have still burned 56 of those cals during that time just sitting on my butt.

shaunshaikh

Yes, you should subtract your pro-rated maintainance calories from your HRM total.

What are you doing that takes 3 hours?

HeidiMightyRawr

I don't, but I can see that it might be useful for many people, especially with you're long workouts it might be a good idea - 30 mins might not burn much doing nothing but 3 hours definately will.
If I hit a big plataeu and it wouldn't budge even if I was staying under cals all the time I probably would start to subtract them to get things moving a bit.

Crystals422

I always do. Go to your goals and take the number of calories burned from daily activty and divide it by 24 then divide that number by 60. Take that number, mine is 1.45 and multiply it by the number of minutes you exercised for then subtract that number from the calories on your hrm.