Does anyone wear HRM all day to track activity

jaz050465

I was just reading a post about someone who does and it made me think that this would be better than a Fitbit- especially as calories could be seen on a watch and you don't have rummage around your boobs like I do to see the fitbit reading.

Mokey41

You'll get crazy inflated numbers wearing it all day. The algorithms in a HRM are set to calculate on an accelerated heart rate. Anything below what most HRM's consider the fitness zone will be inaccurate. Using a HRM all day to calculate burn is a recipe for disaster if you start using that number as your TDEE.

Cyclink

If you were downloading the HR data, it might make for some interesting trivia to see what made your heart rate go up throughout the day, but the calorie counts would be enormously overestimated.

The calculations that HRs use to calculate calories are based on someone exercising, not someone sitting in a car or working at a computer.

jaz050465

That's what I thought. Just wanted to check.