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HRM's & am I REALLY burning that many cals?

dgbiggz
dgbiggz Posts: 25
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
OK - I wear my HRM when I'm working out & that includes at work when I take lunch or a break & "do the stairs"...that's up & down 30 floors at least twice during one break...I do that twice a day - sometimes 3 times if I have the time. This morning I forgot to to STOP the HRM from it's counting process until 15 minutes after I had returned to my office. I know we do burn calories while we are resting & sedentary, but I looked at the HRM at the end of of my second time on the stairs & it shows 264 cals...when I remembered to push the STOP button it was 15 minutes later & the cals said 472. Did I really burn 208 actual cals after I got back to my office? I know my heart rate was still elevated for several minutes, but is that really a true count or not??

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  • shaycat
    shaycat Posts: 980
    That seems high to me since I did 45 minutes of Insanity today and only burned 240 calories.
    So I dont know.
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