Looking for info on calories burned while taking beta blocke

krevelle65

Hi
I am on beta blockers for high blood pressure, I am 46 and weigh 250 down from 282 when my doctor put me on them. I have been on a plateau since starting to work out more. This plateau is going on 3 months and driving me nuts. I recently bought a HRM to try to insure my workouts are productive. I have figured
that at 105 I am starting to breath heavier and at 135 I am sucking air and not able to say more than a couple words at a time. I am working on keeping my workouts in the 120's.

My question is how do I figure calories burned? The HRM say 1 hour at the gym is 354 calories, heartrate average 125 / MFP says it's 900 calories burned. I would like to lose weight without going in to starvation mode. I should explain that going to the gym for me means 30 mins on a treadmill at 3 mph and varying the incline, then ab exercises and then leg exercises. I have suspected that the MFP calories are too high for me, but the HRM calories seem wrong too.

Thoughts, comments, advice?

katrina1025

Yikes! That's a tough question. I would guess that a heart rate monitor is not your best bet. As your beta blocker is meant to blunt your heart rate response. I think the "talk test" would be a better gauge of your workout. That being said I don't think that really answers your question as to calories burned.

You might benefit from a BodyMedia or BodyBugg arm band. These devices use multiple different measures to calculate your calorie expenditure, none of which are heart rate.

Hope that helps!

krevelle65

Thanks, I had never heard of them.