HRM CALs or WEB CAL's

Sherriediva1

So I happened to catch a thread on the boards that was talking about the impossibility of burning 1000 cals in an hour. Well my HRM just gave me 478 for 35 min of walking/jogging. That made me think that someone in much better shape could put forth that kind of effort.... So I decided to look on the net...and I found this web site:

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
Since I knew my avg HR from my HRM I thought I'd see how close it was...not even! At an avg 167 bpm (92% of max) for 35 min, my age, weight, gender my GROSS burn was 388, 344 for NET. Guess I'll update my exercise stuff now!!
Does anyone have any insight/advice!! I bought a HRM with chest strap because all my MFP's said it was more accurate......

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solarfish

Just checked by putting my last work out into the calculator, the gross burn was almost exactly the figure I got from the machine (cross trainer) and Endomondo (when I entered the average heart rate from HRM). Net would have been a little lower of course, but I am not monitoring to that degree of accuracy and certainly not 'eating back exercise calories' to anywhere near that margin of difference.

As a 220lb male, I was able to burn about 500kcal in 30 minutes with average heart rate of about 153, so on for 1000kcal per hour apart from the fact I could never have sustained it that long. I have been at this for nearly three weeks now, doing at least 30 minutes per day at that rate and I have seen my average heart rate drop by about 10 so at the beginning I would have been burning even more (especially as I was 9lbs heavier!)

Sherriediva1

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