? Hr monitor

lauram1153

Hi i have a question.
I wore my hr monitor out when i walked the dog it is programmed with my stats, It said my hr was avg140 and i burnt 400 cals. When i put dog walking at mod pace on my diary it says for 35 mins i burnt 200. which one should i count?
Any help gratefully excepted ta

Dtrmnd86

Definitely go with what the HRM says. I have one with the watch and chest strap and MFP is waaaaay off when it comes to my calories burned. I was actually not losing at first because it had me burning 100 more than I actually did and I eat my exercise calories back.

jrich1

I think you answered your own question, one has information about you (your HRM) and one is an internet site making a broad generalization of what you could burn...

veganjeanie

You gotta trust the HM, I'd say. I ordered one but haven't gotten it yet.

tbrewst

I always go with my HRM

AHealthierRhonda

Assuming your HRM has all your info inputted into it (weight, height, age, gender,...) I'd go with that. If it doesn't I'd go with MFP since it does have that info in the data about you. My HRM and MFP are pretty much on target within 10 cals burned.

deborahmorris

Bump....to read replies...curious myself

erickirb

Hi i have a question.
I wore my hr monitor out when i walked the dog it is programmed with my stats, It said my hr was avg140 and i burnt 400 cals. When i put dog walking at mod pace on my diary it says for 35 mins i burnt 200. which one should i count?
Any help gratefully excepted ta

HRM is more accurate but would also count a portion of calories you would have burned had you not worked out, that MFP already accounts for. Essentially you should use your HRM calories burned but back out your maintenance calories for that time.

If you Maintenance calories are 2200, you would burn 1.53 calories/minute (2200/24/60) while just living, so in 35minutes you would have burned 53 calories had you not worked out. So you should enter 347 (400-53) into MFP for calories burned due to exercise.

Nursingmomof2

What HRM are you guys using? I have the body bugg which I loved, but I can't keep affording to pay for the online subscription (which is ridiculous...you pay $200 for something, you think you wouldn't have to keep paying for the online thing just for it to work!)

lauram1153

thanks now just have to fiqure how to add my own exercise and calories?

erickirb

thanks now just have to fiqure how to add my own exercise and calories?

once you enter the exercise once you can click on the exercise tab and change the time and cals burned in the dialog boxes provided.

lauram1153

thanks got it now. i have a sigma hr monitor watch and chest band think its supposed to be quite accurate x