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Heart rate monitor

feliciawilchek
feliciawilchek Posts: 6
edited January 13 in Fitness and Exercise
I am taking in around 1000-1300 calories a day. I do an hour of cardio and burn around 450 calories. My polar ft4 has been programed for my hight/weight/sex and says I burned about 1500 calories for the day. My fitness pal says I need another 2500 calories for the day in addition to the calories I have already consumed. Why is this so high??. Also has anyone wore a heart rate monitor all day just to see how many calories you burn in a day?

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  • RepsnSets
    RepsnSets Posts: 805 Member
    Im no expert but it does sound very high to me there could be a fault but ive never worn mine all day. Only when Im doing exercise.

    Be interested to see what other MFPers have to say
  • Briko3
    Briko3 Posts: 266 Member
    You have to subtract your BMR from the number you got from wearing your HRM all day. (Or at least a percentage of your BMR based on the amount of time you wore it. You didn't really burn 1500 EXTRA calories.
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