Not sure what to do!!

sburt1

So I have been doing P90X and love it the probelm is I have a Garming Forerunner 305 and when I do the DVD's and use my heart rate monitor it doesn't reall y track my calories. Like when I did Plyometrics for an hour with my hear rate at 180 it told me I burened 40 calories. I have already spent a ton of money on this program and don't really want to go out and buy another heart rate monitor just for this. So I don't know how to track my calories burned. The book says you burn about 600 calories a workout but I can't do the whole DVD as of right now so I know I'm not burning 600 calories but more than 40!! Today I did core synergistics and when I looked online people are saying they buren anywhere from 400 to 600 calories. My watch told me 60......so after all of this what should I do!! Guess on my calories and hope I'm close?

emsibun

It sounds like you simply need to add a zero to what your watch is saying you have burned. But I don't know why that would be!

CanuckLove

OMG I totally know what you mean.
I personally don't think I burn 600 calories an hour, but I know a girl that says its about 300 for the cardio stuff and then you just enter "weight training" under cardio and log 60 minutes and for me its under 200 cals. I know that doesn't help but I would rather underestimate my calories burned then thinking I'm burning billions of calories so I can eat more.

If anyone has anything advise for us I'd love to know