HRM or Nike Fuel Band???

rachaela06
rachaela06 Posts: 167
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
For anyone who has used one or the other, can you please tell me what you like or don't like about either one. I would really like to know how many calories I am burning per workout session. I do various types of workouts, and recently started lifting heavier. Not sure if either will work for me when I'm doing this. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks:)

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  • Mawra
    Mawra Posts: 37 Member
    Bump

    I'm on my way to buy an HRM soon and would love some answers on this one.
  • bug1114
    bug1114 Posts: 268 Member
    I have no idea what the Nike Fuel Band is, but I just got my first HRM and love it. I got the Polar FT4. It's easy to use and keeps track of my heart rate very well. You have to wet the leads on the chest strap before each use, but that's not a big deal to me. I got mine from heartratemonitorsusa.com. With a coupon code I found online, it was 66 bucks and it came within three business days. I originally wanted one without a chest strap, but I kept reading about how those were less accurate so I decided to give in and get a chest strap model. Couldn't be happier with my decision.
  • AnaVerasGettingFit
    AnaVerasGettingFit Posts: 109 Member
    No question - an hrm all the way. The fuel band won't b able to give u an actual calorie count.
  • LittleMissRainey
    LittleMissRainey Posts: 440 Member
    I've been looking at the FT4 myself - do you have to use it with the chest strap or can you just use it as a wrist HRM?
  • designkid78
    designkid78 Posts: 15
    I was debating on this myself. I'm going with the HRM, which I am going to order in the next few days. The Nike Fuel Band just gives you "points" for being active. These "points" aren't actually calories. I thought it was a cool idea until I saw that the points don't mean anything.
  • Sidned
    Sidned Posts: 1 Member
    i've used a HRM with strap and found when doing excessive cardio, it kept slipping. I'm now looking for a wrist monitor only, to prevent this problem:-)
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    i've used a HRM with strap and found when doing excessive cardio, it kept slipping. I'm now looking for a wrist monitor only, to prevent this problem:-)

    No, you don't want to do this! Wrist only monitors are not accurate at all... So Either tighten the strap or buy a smaller one, but do not get a wrist only monitor!

    To OP:
    HRM's are only useful for steady state cardio.. not strength training. So any calorie count you do get during strength training, is going to be skewed.

    Don't know much about a Nike Fuel Band as I've only used an HRM with a strap.
  • MelanieAG05
    MelanieAG05 Posts: 359 Member
    I've got a Polar FT7 which is great. A friend of mine bought a Nike Fuel band and it told her she only burned 70 calories doing a 6km run! So I would go with an HRM but make sure it has a chest strap! I had a cheap one without a chest strap and it didn't work well at all. It could never pick up my heart rate.
  • MelanieAG05
    MelanieAG05 Posts: 359 Member
    I've been looking at the FT4 myself - do you have to use it with the chest strap or can you just use it as a wrist HRM?

    You need to use it with the chest strap to get the heart rate otherwise you wont get calories burned. The chest straps are really comfortable.
  • bluefox9er
    bluefox9er Posts: 2,917 Member
    I've got a Polar FT7 which is great. A friend of mine bought a Nike Fuel band and it told her she only burned 70 calories doing a 6km run! So I would go with an HRM but make sure it has a chest strap! I had a cheap one without a chest strap and it didn't work well at all. It could never pick up my heart rate.

    She should return it as I did a 4 mile run and gave me 732 calories burnt Vs my polar HRM reading of 718.

    Fuel band isn't an accurate way to *kitten* calories burnt, but a HRM is.
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