C25K & Polar FT7

Misiaxcore

I just got my HRM! But I was wondering, how do you log your calories burned for C25K? Like, do you not count the walking parts? Do you only count calories burnt when you're over a certain heart rate? To be honest, I'm not quite sure how this thing works yet haha. Off to find some instructions, but just wondering what everyone else does with this.

april_beth

you could the calories from when you start walking till youre done your cool down.

prettyfitchick

i have the ft4 and use my exercise to create a spot for c25k and i count during work out

bdur76

I use an hrm while I'm doing c25k and I start it from the beginning of my warm up walk until the end out my cool down. It's all exercise, it all counts! The only change I make in logging the activity is I subtract out the calories I'd burn during that time even if I wasn't exercising, as mfp already adds them into your daily total. Good luck with c25k it is an awesome program. I'm just finishing week 8 and feel better than I have in a very long time!

dad106

You would count all of it.. because all of it is exercise.. there is no distinction.

When you go to enter it in on mfp, you can either create your own c25k spot or I'm sure the database has one.. then enter in how long you worked out for and instead of using the calories MFP gives you, enter in what the HRM says.

Misiaxcore

Alright thanks you guys !

snookumss

You just use it as soon as you climb onto that treadmill (or start the walking if you do it outside) and stop when you get off. Then there is something I didn't learn until later... You need to take out your base calories from those your heart rate monitor says you burned in total.

For example.

When I sit and watch tv for an hour I personally burn 90 calories.
I find 90 by taking my daily calorie burn (available if you play with settings on MFP and set it to "Maintain") which is Y (I can't remember exactly).
Divide Y by 24 (hours) and then again by 60 (minutes). This will be your standard burn per minute. This means I would have burned 90 calories if I didn't go to the gym for that very hour.... so it would have been burned anyway!

I burn about 1.5 calories per minute. If I exercise for 60 minutes and burned 450, I have to take out the calories I already burn normally. So 60 times 1.5 is 90 calories. I don't get to eat those calories Extra because they are already counted in my daily estimate. 450-90=360... this is what I enter into MFP and get to eat back (or not)

I hope I didn't make that confusing... I tried to simplify it, I am sure if I didn't help much, you will be able to search for better examples and explanations in the forums... but I found out later and was bummed!

Misiaxcore

You just use it as soon as you climb onto that treadmill (or start the walking if you do it outside) and stop when you get off. Then there is something I didn't learn until later... You need to take out your base calories from those your heart rate monitor says you burned in total.

For example.

When I sit and watch tv for an hour I personally burn 90 calories.
I find 90 by taking my daily calorie burn (available if you play with settings on MFP and set it to "Maintain") which is Y (I can't remember exactly).
Divide Y by 24 (hours) and then again by 60 (minutes). This will be your standard burn per minute. This means I would have burned 90 calories if I didn't go to the gym for that very hour.... so it would have been burned anyway!

I burn about 1.5 calories per minute. If I exercise for 60 minutes and burned 450, I have to take out the calories I already burn normally. So 60 times 1.5 is 90 calories. I don't get to eat those calories Extra because they are already counted in my daily estimate. 450-90=360... this is what I enter into MFP and get to eat back (or not)

I hope I didn't make that confusing... I tried to simplify it, I am sure if I didn't help much, you will be able to search for better examples and explanations in the forums... but I found out later and was bummed!

Wow! Thank you so much for that info! I'm such an HRM nub :laugh: