HRM Question

jadams1650
jadams1650 Posts: 139 Member
edited January 16 in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone know whether the calorie burn shown in a Polar FT-7 HRM for an exercise session is gross calories expended or net calories burned for the specific activity?

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  • bpmichael
    bpmichael Posts: 28 Member
    Bump. This is great question as I have been thinking about this lately myself. From what I have read it is actually gross calories and not net calories.

    Net calories = Gross calories burned - Calories needed to support Resting metabolic rate

    I guess one way to test this is the go run or walk a mile and see how many calories you burn while doing that.

    Then after cool down see how many calories you burn by sitting on couch (RMR calories) by wearing HRM.
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