HRM when doing Wii Exercises

awolf2011

I have been doing Wii Fit Plus and the Biggest Loser Challenge for Wii and I have been relying on the number of calories it says that I burned during my workout. Is there anyone who uses a HRM as well to make sure that they are acurately getting the calories or is the Wii pretty close? The reason I ask is that for the Biggest Loser Challenge sometimes it seems like I should be burning more calories than it says that I do.

Any comments or help would be appreciated.

twinmom01

variety of factors...so not everyone is going to be the same...

I did Sports Active and wore my HRM - the calories calculated via my HRM were a little lower than what the game told me...

I use my HRM sporatically - I use it a few times for a certain activity to get a base of what I average and use that number...

for example - I found that if I did 30 minutes of an ellipitcal I burn about 300 calories or 10 calories a minute...when I wore it for about 6 dances of Just Dance with my kids = 300 calories burned or about 50 a song...

it also depends on what type of exercises you are doing - I burn more calories in my 50 minute kickboxing class (about 350 or so) then I do in my 50 minutes weightlifting class (150 or so) - even though I sweat about the same in both....so if you are doing more stationary strength training moves vs more HIIT or cardio type moves your burn may be lower

awolf2011

I was wondering if this was the case b/c on the run down of my calories burned during my workouts which shows how many calories were burned per exercise, the cardio and strength training were sometimes quite a bit different. I am not too worried about it b/c I still get a hell of a good workout and I know that I am burning caloires and fat. I was just curious if I should spend the money on one or not. I plan on walking once it gets nicer where I live and I have a pedometer built into my Ipod which tracks calories, so I wouldn't need it for this either. Thanks for your input.