mad or complimented????

shug458

Okay so I am not sure how to feel at the moment and let me tell you why!!!! My husband bought me a heart rate monitor tonight which I was extatic about (now I can REALLY tell how many TRUE calories I am burning) - I just busted my hump doing day 2 of JM 30 day shred and all i burned was 32 little tiny calories??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME! I am soaking wet with sweat - wanted to die but pushed myself and all it said was 32 calories. So that's why I am mad - BUT maybe I could consider that a compliment to me - they say the smaller you are and the least amount you have to lose the smaller the calories you will burn -
but still I am totally dissapointed. Did the same work out last night and accoridng to MFP I burned 207 - yeah not even close

On the bright side I feel great that I pushed my way through day 2 - boy am I sore!!!!!

deathtaco

Doubt you only burned 32 calories :noway: !!

Don't worry either. Exercise isn't a "here and now" thing anyway. Your body will continue to burn calories throughout the day due to various reasons.

AmyW4225

I wonder if that is correct? That seems extremely low! Are you sure you have it set right? :laugh:

wildbio

That doesn't sound quite right. You might want to double check the HRM. If you're soaked in sweat then you most definitely should have burned more than just 32 calories.

crjugrl

I'd be interested to know this as well, although it seems like that's an awfully low number. I gained 4 pounds in the first 10 days of the 30 Day Shred. Not very happy, to say the least.

shug458

My husband put my height and weight in and it said 32

iamhealingmyself

was it your heart rate monitor that said you burned 32 calories? Did you set it up for your statistics (does it even have that option?) does it include a "zone" setting so you can determine your fat/cardio zones? all of that could impact your results. I wear my Polar FT4 when doing a slightly modified version of JM 30DS level 1 and can burn several hundred calories with hardly a sweat but a good leg burn. Something seems off somewhere. I know I had to create an exercise for me so I enter the total time and the calories my HRM says I burned as the system doesn't calculate that for me.

iamhealingmyself

I know mine has a chest strap and it needs to be wet before I put it on or it doesn't register correctly and stops at different times. Is it possible you bumped the "stop" or "pause" feature? I do that sometimes too, or push it to connect to the transmitter and forget to hit it again to actually start logging calories and don't realize that until the workout is over :grumble:

EDesq

Exercise is FARRR more important than the "Immediate" calories burned...ANYWAY, nothing can really give you an accurate account of what is "burned immediately."

fredam25

It's true--exercise doesn't burn all that many calories all at once unless you really kick in some serious time and effort. Where the exercise really benefits is in this--as your body gets stronger and more efficient, you start burning more calories just doing your daily activities. And it's also true that, if you're smaller, your heart doesn't have to work as hard to keep your body fueled while you exercise, so your heart rate will stay lower.

shug458

as I burned calories the timer was going - 27 minutes = 32 calories - I dont understand - Im totally bummed

AmyW4225

I'd be interested to know this as well, although it seems like that's an awfully low number. I gained 4 pounds in the first 10 days of the 30 Day Shred. Not very happy, to say the least.

Your muscles are probably just retaining water. Keep it up and you will see results. :happy:

dlaplume2

Did you make sure you wet the band. I was truly disappointed when MFY said I was burning 276 and my HRM said 190, but 32 is very low. I would double check the settings your husband put in, just to be sure. You know men are with instructions. :laugh: :laugh:

shug458

wet the band????? it's the watch one - I just asked him and he said he put in all my stats 4'11" 30 yr old female 127lbs

kdouglas11

Take it back! That sounds nuts! Jillian KILLS me!

laughingdani

That's not right at all. I burn around 200-210 according to my HRM doing The Shred.
I would take it back and get one with a chest strap for a more accurate reading.

ContinuousEffort

I think the monitor is broken. You must have burned more than that. I would return it and try a different one.

tabi26

Get one with a chest strap. They read better

Dreamerlove

I'm not so sure about the smaller you are..less calories to burn thing. I do Chalean Johnson Turbo Fire, and she is tiny and VERY VERY fit and her hair drips when we are done working out, and she says everyone can burn 600 cals...but I'm not an expert. I know that if you have a heavy person and a fit person doing the same workout, yes the heavy person will burn more, BUT the fit person will be able to do more and not modify moves...but idk

MakingAChoice

My husband put my height and weight in and it said 32

Might want to make sure the hubby did not typo your weight or something. 32 calories doing a 30 day shred would not be possible, it should be in the hundreds.

robin52077

wet the band????? it's the watch one - I just asked him and he said he put in all my stats 4'11" 30 yr old female 127lbs

The watch ones are crap. Really. You have to touch it to register your HR, right? Well, if you touched it when you started, then it was only recording your resting rate the whole time, if your HR went up, and you didn't touch it again, it doesn't register the higher rate. Conversely, if you touch it at a high HR, then slow down, it is still counting at the higher rate and you will get a grossly inflated number. Especially for circuit training like Shred, you'd have to touch it before and after each change in exercise, as they all have different intensity levels and your HR goes up and down dramatically during Shred. I burn 110 when I do level 1.
So either commit to touching the darn thing every 30 seconds, or get one with a chest strap that monitors every beat of your heart in real time, no touching necessary!