HRM Question

abigailmariecs

I just got and used my HRM for the first time. I followed all the directions and everything appeared to be working correctly. My question is that it showed my calorie burn to be 82 calories. I was doing Week 1 Day 1 of C25k. Does this sound right? I bought the HRM to monitor my heart rate more than for the calories burned section but I just wanted to make sure that everything works right.

week 1 day 1 consists of 22 minutes of walking and 8 minutes of running.

AmyRhubarb

What kind of HRM? Does it have a chest strap? Does it have the features that allow you to enter your personal info, such as gender, height, weight, activity level or any of that?

82 calories seems low - I burn more than that on a brisk 20 minute walk according to my HRM...

abigailmariecs

It does have a chest strap and it allows for personal information. I thought that 82 calories seemed low as well. The heart rate monitor is a pyle sport. The heart rate seemed to be correct. I did a manual count 3x to make sure that was accurate. I was looking at a Polar HRM but my honey suprised me with this one and as usual did no research on it first.

AsellusReborn

That's the hrm I use and our stats are similar - day 1 of the c25k (granted I was 180ish then) told me something around 300ish.

abigailmariecs

Well at least it reads my heart rate correctly

abigailmariecs

There is nothing like realizing you really are that person who can't read directions. I was only reading the decimal point on the calories burned. In my defense the decimals are smaller and KCAL is directly above it.