Setup Polar HRM for more accurate calorie burn for known BMR

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    was just thinking about this topic today since I'm in the market for a new one.
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    I'm planning on ordering a HRM soon so I just want to see if I got this right.

    Age: 23
    Height: 66"
    Weight: 163
    BMR: 1559

    CB Body Fat%: 20.7%
    New BMR: 1639

    So then I would have to set it to 6 years old... That seems crazy. How can they sell something that is that inaccurate?
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    I'm planning on ordering a HRM soon so I just want to see if I got this right.

    Age: 23
    Height: 66"
    Weight: 163
    BMR: 1559

    CB Body Fat%: 20.7%
    New BMR: 1639

    So then I would have to set it to 6 years old... That seems crazy. How can they sell something that is that inaccurate?

    Because it's intended purpose was to monitory HR, desire to know calorie burns was much later.

    Since this is about the easiest thing to use outside gas masks measuring your O2 usage, you try to make correlations that are really pretty lose.

    If they wanted to they could have you input your BF% too - but how many people would look measure to find out, or accept a default? The default at healthy weight is probably pretty close, overweight, could vary greatly, as you have discovered.

    You have more lean body mass for someone your age, weight, height than avg - great news.

    Now, that difference in BMR is not really that great, this is bigger deal to the folks with 200-300 difference.
    But it does show you are biologically younger!

    For easier thing to change, you can also adjust the height in the same way as age to end up with the same BMR figure.
    Because some of the nicer HRM's do use age for other calc's, so adjusting it is not good. Height would be better.

    You are about to be taller!
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