Body media link or core?

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  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Take a look:

    http://amiigo.co/
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    I have had the link for about a day now.

    Yes, you do need the activity manager because that is where you upload all your data from. It is cool that you can check your phone and get a "live" reading throughout day or during a workout.

    Yesterday, it said that my total burn for the day - with leg workout - was about 3000 calories. That sounds about right as when I had calculated my TDEE at fit to fat and IF calculator they gave me a TDEE of 2800 to 3100....Today I am going to take a full rest day so it will be interesting to see what the reading is for that.

    I really did not have any problems getting used to or sleeping with arm band.

    I will say that the blue tooth link to Iphone seems a little buggy sometimes but maybe that is just me..will have more on this in a few days....

    Remember you can isolate your workout time to see how many calories that burnt EXTRA. Remember to take away from that the calories you would have burnt just sitting still. For me that is 1.1 Cals per minute but you can get that value from the activity manager by looking at a time you are just sitting.

    Kinda confused by this. Why would it matter what I burn when sitting? The idea is to figure out what your total burn for a day is and then eat less then that by X percent or eat in a surplus if you are bulking. Or am I missing something? I am not to concerned with what my extra work out burn is....but more concerned with burn on non workout days vs work out days...Also, looking at my work out log it looks like I burned about 350 cals during my leg workout...
  • jvnoonway
    jvnoonway Posts: 24
    NDJ1979,

    The reason why your at rest calorie burn counts is because body media is an all inclusive device, and it measures your calorie burn at all times, so that it knows what you need to eat. Each of our bodies need X amt of calories just to survive, because the armband is on all the time, it gives you a better feedback of what you are burning ALL DAY so that you can eat enough for you to live, and also to burn appropriately.

    So, the best thing about this tool is that you will know FOR SURE what your cal deficit (or surplus) is every day.
    wow, did I even answer your question lol?
  • DoxieLove10612
    DoxieLove10612 Posts: 145 Member
    I have the core about 5 months ago and bought the display 3 weeks ago for $24 when BM had it on sale. When I bought my armband I was like I don't need to know how many calories I burn so I will pay less for this others one.....then I became obsessed with knowing. Now that I have the display I find myself challenging my previous days burn or to reach a certain number. Spend the extra and get the one that will sync with your smartphone
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    NDJ1979,

    The reason why your at rest calorie burn counts is because body media is an all inclusive device, and it measures your calorie burn at all times, so that it knows what you need to eat. Each of our bodies need X amt of calories just to survive, because the armband is on all the time, it gives you a better feedback of what you are burning ALL DAY so that you can eat enough for you to live, and also to burn appropriately.

    So, the best thing about this tool is that you will know FOR SURE what your cal deficit (or surplus) is every day.
    wow, did I even answer your question lol?

    LOL I do not think so.

    The original person said that you should subtract your calories burned while sitting..which I did not understand the point of..

    I understood it like you, that you wanted to know total burn for the day - everything included...the deduct part confused me..
  • Morgaath
    Morgaath Posts: 679 Member
    The original person said that you should subtract your calories burned while sitting..which I did not understand the point of..

    I understood it like you, that you wanted to know total burn for the day - everything included...the deduct part confused me..

    I think they mean so that you know how many cals you burnt doing the workout, over and above what you would burn sitting on the couch.

    Total workout burn - Resting burn = cals burnt by working out rather than staying home and watching the snow melt.

    Not sure I understood why though.
  • joleenl
    joleenl Posts: 739 Member
    Take a look:

    http://amiigo.co/

    The thing looks totally cool it doesn't sync with mfp though. :(
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    The original person said that you should subtract your calories burned while sitting..which I did not understand the point of..

    I understood it like you, that you wanted to know total burn for the day - everything included...the deduct part confused me..

    I think they mean so that you know how many cals you burnt doing the workout, over and above what you would burn sitting on the couch.

    Total workout burn - Resting burn = cals burnt by working out rather than staying home and watching the snow melt.

    Not sure I understood why though.

    Think people may be referring to my comment. It was because poster was interested in comparing their total burn on a day when they exercised to a day when they didnt. What I meant was you can isolate that exercise period to see what effe t it had on your total burn for the day.

    I've used my data to calculate the average calories I burn per minute whilst sitting, walking the dog, jogging and strength training. If I'm inline to not reach my target burn, I can then work out what I need to do in order to meet the target. Hope this makes sense.

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