calories burned after exercise?

johnsscarlett

Ok so I went to the gym and according to my HRM I burned around 700 calories on the eliptical machine. Directly after that I went shopping and left my HRM on. After an hour it said I had burned around 1500 calories. Now how did I manage burn 700 on the elipitcal in 1 hour and then an additional 800 just walking around the store? I know I've heard that after exercise you do continue to burn calories but to that extent? If this is accurate what do you do with those extra calories? Do you enter them as exercise calories or what. It just seems so high. I'm new with HRM thing so I'm just trying to figure this all out. If anyone knows about this I would love to hear from you. Thanks

johnsscarlett

Ok so I went to the gym and according to my HRM I burned around 700 calories on the eliptical machine. Directly after that I went shopping and left my HRM on. After an hour it said I had burned around 1500 calories. Now how did I manage burn 700 on the elipitcal in 1 hour and then an additional 800 just walking around the store? I know I've heard that after exercise you do continue to burn calories but to that extent? If this is accurate what do you do with those extra calories? Do you enter them as exercise calories or what. It just seems so high. I'm new with HRM thing so I'm just trying to figure this all out. If anyone knows about this I would love to hear from you. Thanks

ohthatbambi

I only count the calories that I burn when I am actually exercising. I cut the thing off as soon as I stop whatever I am doing. I don't wait for my HR to come down to resting status.

One day just for fun, I am going to wear that thing all day and see what how many cals I burn on a normal day doing normal things...just so I know.