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calories burned-trust HRM or machine?

katiew78
katiew78 Posts: 24 Member
edited January 9 in Fitness and Exercise
I've been a regular gym goer for a fair while, and mostly used my old polar f1 HRM, which didn't give me a calorie count. It recently died, so I treated myself to a ft4, and used it for the 1st time today.

I did 35 minutes on the vario cross trainer (after inputting my weight & age on machine) had average HR of about 150. Machine said 408 cals burned, HRM said 318. I'm presuming my HRM is more accurate and I should use those figures?

I then did 10 mins hiit on rower, and it said 108 (no personal info inputted) and HRM said 110 so a bit more matched.
Thanks for any input

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  • chelbivandine
    chelbivandine Posts: 33 Member
    Definitely go with the HRM I have the same one and I find it far more accurate! Plus better to log you burned less then to log you burned more and take in more calories you know.
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    Always the HRM.
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