help with exercise cals & hrm please

lilvixen84

i have a question.... just done a little jog and my calorie burn was 148 in 12mins. was using polar ft4. fella says this is wrong because it doesn't track distance and running calories is about distance. what good tracker is there for exercise then??

mmstgr

Just because it didn't track your distance doesn't mean it didn't calculate your burn. That's just silly.
But if you want to track distance, I've heard that Garmin makes the best for that.

Sagetheplace

I am not an expert but I dont think it works like that. I think everyone would burn a different amount of calories for the same distance depending on speed, fitness level, age, gender, terrain ect ect. I would trust the HRM if all your information in it is correct.

tankgirl1976

Your calories burned is based on your heart rate and weight. If your HRM says you burned 148 in 12 minutes, you must have been running pretty hard, so your intensity boosted your heart rate and thus calorie burn.

You could walk 1 mile in 20 minutes, run 1 mile in 10, or jog one mile in 12 minutes, and I bet you'll burn different calorie amounts. Try it.

lilvixen84

well according to him its wrong. sorry just hacked off because i did my first little run and got left because i kept stopping. not my fault as i've never done it before.

hes got a garmin watch that his mate gave him but i can't afford one.

maybe i should of just used the app on my phone but i forgot.

hounds726

I just started using the FT4 as well! Trust the device, it is what they are made for. Like a previous poster said--If you entered all of your personal stats correctly, it should give you an accurate read out (in fact--more accurate than a gym machine or MFP).

Good luck!

merrillfoster

Haha, he's wrong. If you want to track distance for yourself, go for it (there's a website called map my run that will do it for you too). But if you're just worried about your calorie burn, distance has nothing to do with that (beyond the obvious, the further you go the more you will burn). Trust your HRM, your friend doesn't know what he's talking about, lol.

dad106

Um your fella is wrong.. and the Polar is correct. You only need to track distance if you want to know how far you've gone.. you don't need it for calories.

To calculate calories burned you need all your personal info and max heart rate.

Di3012

i have a question.... just done a little jog and my calorie burn was 148 in 12mins. was using polar ft4. fella says this is wrong because it doesn't track distance and running calories is about distance. what good tracker is there for exercise then??

HRMs measure calories burned via heartrates and I think it goes by the average heartrate for that training session too, therefore that fella is not correct.

I have a Polar FT4 and it works just fine, trust it, they are smashing little gadgets.

lilvixen84

ok i'll add the cals burnt back then to the right amount as changed them to what he said it should of been.

thanks for the help and feel free to add me all :happy: