MFP cals vs HR watch cals

kegger1997

MFP says i would burn 148 cals if i walked at a mod. pace but my HR watch says i burned 363. which do you go by? i have sometimes cut it in the middle and say 250 but just curious what you do?

shadow2soul

Does your HRM have a chest strap? If not I'd go with MFP's estimate. The reason I say this is, because if it is one of the ones you have to touch to get a HR reading it can estimate extremely high and also extremely low.

So say you start your workout, push the button and get a reading of 100. Now until you touch the button again it is going to think your heart rate is only 100bpm. So say the next time you touch it, its 150 bpm. Now the watch will give you a calorie burn as if your HR was a constant 150bpm till you press the button again. So on and so forth.

kegger1997

it has the chest strap.

shadow2soul

it has the chest strap.

Then I'd go with the calories from the HRM. Or if you're not comfortable eating all of them, log only 70-80% of the calories. :flowerforyou:

kegger1997

thank you