HRM question

Annieminnesota

For those of you who wear a heart rate monitor, do you stop the HRM right when your done with your exercise or do you let it go for a while since your heart rate is still up?

I usually wait a while, maybe 10 minutes or so to let my heart recover. And then, I input that many calories into MFP. Anybody know what the correct way to do that is?

Pronoiac

Stop it that point you consider your workout complete...ie; the minutes you will log into MFP. I run mine through my entire workout, including any cooldown and stretching. By the time I have finished stretching my HR is down to a normal range anyway.

CatGrooms66

I stop mine when I'm done exercising. I figure if I burn off some extra cals whil my heartrate goes back down it's a freebie.

sylvuz323

For me it depends if I pushed hard the last few minutes of my hour work out then I might let it run during a cool down and while I stretch. But if I did a moderate work out then I stop it immediately after I'm off the treadmill or elliptical machine.

iuangina

I stop it at the end of the workout. I include my cool down and stretching in that time.

staceyseeger

I stop mine when I'm done exercising. I figure if I burn off some extra cals whil my heartrate goes back down it's a freebie.

Me, too...I've often wondered about this.

cPT_Helice

I turn mine off as soon as I'm done with the cooldown and stretch, because I consider that part of my workout. Anything I burn after is, like others have said, a bonus or a buffer.

Jess5825

When I was using my HRM (I use a BMF now) I would let it run for a few more minutes. My resting HR is like 54 about, and I can get my HR up to 160's during my workout sometimes. I usually let it go until it hits like the 80's and then I stop. While your HR is up you're still burning more calories, so why not let it go. I had noticed in the 5 years I used my HRM, my HR would go down a lot quicker than it did in the beginning.