frustrated with my HRM

kimberlyAjohnson

I have a treadmill at home and have been doing C25K. I bought a HRM because I wanted to make sure my calories burned were a more accurate number than the treadmill was giving me. I have a high resting heart rate (around 80), so I fixed my settings accordingly as well as set the sensivity to the highest setting. After I ran (1.75 miles), my stupid HRM said only 0.76. Obviously, based on that, my calories are going to be way off...
What am I doing wrong??? How can I fix it? If anyone has any ieas, I'd love to hear them

therealangd

What kind of HRM is it? Can you get it exchanged to see if it isn't a malfunction? Read the instructions again to make sure what you are doing is correct.

jaimejean478

Does your treadmill have a HRM built in? I think most do have some sort. There may be some miscommunication going on between the two. My HRM somehow magically syncs up with the treadmill at the gym to give my HR reading.

Seb83

I have a treadmill at home and have been doing C25K. I bought a HRM because I wanted to make sure my calories burned were a more accurate number than the treadmill was giving me. I have a high resting heart rate (around 80), so I fixed my settings accordingly as well as set the sensivity to the highest setting. After I ran (1.75 miles), my stupid HRM said only 0.76. Obviously, based on that, my calories are going to be way off...
What am I doing wrong??? How can I fix it? If anyone has any ieas, I'd love to hear them

Is there a stride length setting on the HRM? Maybe that's set wrong?

mom23nuts

maybe there is cross talk between the machine and the monitor and it is messing up the results. Coul you go to a local measured high school track and do a few laps and see if there out in the open the monitor is more accurate? some monitors even get messed up around other monitors and that throws off your results.

don't forget machines seem to overestimate things like calories burned and such but not usually the distance gone.

kimberlyAjohnson

I'm at work right now and don't remember off the top of my head what brand it is. The stride defaults to 25 but I have long legs and when I measured my stride, it was 27. My treadmill has a heart rate sensor built in, but you have to touch it before it registers. Could that still be causing issues?

jaimejean478

I'm at work right now and don't remember off the top of my head what brand it is. The stride defaults to 25 but I have long legs and when I measured my stride, it was 27. My treadmill has a heart rate sensor built in, but you have to touch it before it registers. Could that still be causing issues?

It definitely could still cause issues. The treadmill I use at the gym has handle things that you need to grip to measure your heart rate, but somehow the monitor and the treadmill still talk to each other.

kimberlyAjohnson

I'm at work right now and don't remember off the top of my head what brand it is. The stride defaults to 25 but I have long legs and when I measured my stride, it was 27. My treadmill has a heart rate sensor built in, but you have to touch it before it registers. Could that still be causing issues?

It definitely could still cause issues. The treadmill I use at the gym has handle things that you need to grip to measure your heart rate, but somehow the monitor and the treadmill still talk to each other.

Is there any way to, for lack of a better word, fix it?

kimberlyAjohnson

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