Yet another topic on HRMs

LokiOfAsgard

Could I get the same results with just checking my pulse after I do whatever exercise I'm doing? Are the 'one-touch' HRMs any good?
Would most of you recommend the ones that use the chest strap?

I honestly have no clue what to do and even the cheaper HRMs aren't very cheap in my book. So I want as many opinions as possible to help me decide what I'm doing. ._.

Please help :flowerforyou: You'll all get flowers and cookies

Emmasmommy27

Does anybody know how to add or find an exercise? I have been doing insanity but when I want to add it to my diary it doesn't find it!! HELP please!!:noway:

mreeves261

Does anybody know how to add or find an exercise? I have been doing insanity but when I want to add it to my diary it doesn't find it!! HELP please!!:noway:

You have to add it as a custom exercise. I use a HRM to get my burn and put it in custom. I don't think any of the MFP calculations on anything are close to what I burn.

mfpcopine

Could I get the same results with just checking my pulse after I do whatever exercise I'm doing? Are the 'one-touch' HRMs any good?
Would most of you recommend the ones that use the chest strap?

I honestly have no clue what to do and even the cheaper HRMs aren't very cheap in my book. So I want as many opinions as possible to help me decide what I'm doing. ._.

Please help :flowerforyou: You'll all get flowers and cookies

Theoretically, you'd get the same results. I bought one because it was awkward to stop mid-exercise. I wasn't sure I was counting correctly either.

mreeves261

Could I get the same results with just checking my pulse after I do whatever exercise I'm doing? Are the 'one-touch' HRMs any good?
Would most of you recommend the ones that use the chest strap?

I honestly have no clue what to do and even the cheaper HRMs aren't very cheap in my book. So I want as many opinions as possible to help me decide what I'm doing. ._.

Please help :flowerforyou: You'll all get flowers and cookies

I got one at Target for $50. It's a strapless one (not as accurate but better than guessing). I didn't want to make a huge investment until I made exercise a habit and not a want.

Before that I found a HRM app for my iPhone. Worked ok, better than guessing still.

Eileen889

Does anybody know how to add or find an exercise? I have been doing insanity but when I want to add it to my diary it doesn't find it!! HELP please!!:noway:

I found that logging the 40 minute Insanity workouts as "Cardio Circuit" and the recovery days as "Yoga" comes pretty close to what my Polar FT4 HRM says that I burned.

prdavies1949

I love my HRM, I have a Polar RC3GPS. It uses a chest strap. As I am a statistics freak, when I run I love to know how far, how fast, what my heart rate was, how much climb I have done. Stats for each km, stats for each lap, stats for the whole session. All shown in graph form as well as a display of my route wherever I run in the world. It even tells me how many cals I have burned. (Usually a lot more than MFP reckons.) The downside is it wasn't, cheap. Yes get a HRM the data they provide can be very useful. IMO get the dearest you can afford as the more you spend the better the quality of data.