calories burned

nursemeg21

Do most of you use a heart rate/calorie monitor when entering in your exercise calories? or do you just use what the exercise equipment tells you?

nursemeg21

Do most of you use a heart rate/calorie monitor when entering in your exercise calories? or do you just use what the exercise equipment tells you?

hmo4

HRM are more accurate. The machines don't know your stats.

brookefoley

My elliptical asks me my age and weight, so I think it gives me a good estimate of how much I'm actually burning. So I usually go with that. Otherwise, I estimate based on what MFP tells me I did (like when I walk or run outside).

scaredofcoasters

For kendo, I took the statistics on MFP for Karate and used those. We don't necessarily move as much in kendo (though drills and sparring are heavy cardio), but when you do everything with 20 - 30 pounds of armor on, it does work your body a lot more!

brookefoley

WOW, that sounds HARD!!

debmac63

i bought an hrm because my treadmill doesn't ask for stats and I would get three different answers to calories burned by three different websites. I never knew who was accurate.

SHBoss1673

I was very skeptical of the machines and MFP's calorie estimates simply because for about 2 months I was trying to use them and would get widely different results. So I asked around, and many people had similar issues. So I went to the best expert I knew, my wife, who has been working with trainers and PT for years. It was close to x-mas and she said, don't worry about it for now. Low and behold 2 weeks later I had a Polar F6 in my stocking. AWESOME. Then I realized what the difference was.

Heart rate monitors with continuous monitoring features (chest or arm strap) take not only your age and weight, but height, sex, and heart rate. They still use standardized formulas so the results won't be perfect (the only way to get perfect results is to go to a PT lab or other specialist that hooks you up to machines that measure your metabolic rate, calorie burn, VO2MAX, heart rate...etc.) but they should be within a few percent of accurate.
It may not sound like much, but consider that even now, when I get on the tredmill, after 35 minutes of hard (75% Max heart rate) work, with the tredmill reading my HRM's signal, it gives me far higher calorie burn, somewhere around 150 calories. Now if you do cardio for 1/2 an hour a day 3 times a week and are trying to lose say 1 lb per week, that's 1750 calories a week. If you eat your exercise calories, that's almost 1/8 of a pound a week off. Doesn't sound like much, but do that for 1 year and that's about 8 pounds. Imagine if you work out an hour a day 4 days a week, that could be 1000+ calories a week, or about 15 lbs a year it's screwing you out of.

lllcox

I know this was quite some time ago - but good to get confirmation! I was estimating kendo calories burned with the fencing category, but seemed to be losing faster than I ought that way. I just switched the exercise to "judo, karate, kick boxing etc," which apparently burns a lot more calories!

Jalex1972

Its the wearing bogu (armour) that distorts judging calories burned for Kendo as an exercise.

All the other popular martial arts are wearing only white pyjamas *winks* or light plastic foam guard (like in Taekwondo). Also with the helmet (men mask) you don't breathe or expel heat in the same way either. So I went for the "fencing" option.

This was the closest I got, with googling.

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-13717.html

Regardless, I need to burn more doing more !!