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    Should i log what HR monitor says or treadmill?

    Posts: 74 Member
    edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    So i just finished walking on the treadmill at a 3.0 speed with a 11.0 incline for 45 minutes. My ft4 says i burned 385 but the treadmill said 698. Thats over 300 calorie difference! Should i go by machine or HR monitor? Or log the average? Anyone know??
    Btw, this is the first time I use my HR monitor at the gym (just got it last wk)

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    • Posts: 14,776 Member
      Machines are notorious for overestimating. Use your HRM's number.
    • Posts: 431 Member
      I go by what my HRM says over what the machine says.
    • Posts: 74 Member
      I can understand the machines overestimating, but by HALF???? Seriously??!!
    • Posts: 59 Member
      When I'd work out at my school gym on the treadmill it'd tell me that for 30 min walk at 3.3 MPH and 30 min jog, I would burn about 230 calories. What?! I went with it because I had no idea what I should have been burning. I got a HRM (the FT4) and now I burn close to 650 when I do 60 min of walk/jog. (outside, no longer attend the gym) Although that is a big difference in yours, I'd still go with your HRM, it's going to "know" you better than the machine :)
    • Posts: 44
      HRM!! And, if I may ask, which one do you have? I want to get one and am looking for recommendations!
    • Posts: 74 Member
      I have the Polar FT4! Like i said, i've only had it for a week, but i like it!! And it's pink!
    • Posts: 52
      I have tne ft4 also and love it. It does record half the amont my bike does also. I go by the hrm though just to be safe.
    • Posts: 74 Member
      bump.....
    • Posts: 2,836 Member
      I don't have an HR monitor, but I figure that my treadmill numbers are fairly accurate because I have to enter my weight. I use those numbers over the ones given for the number of minutes in MFP.
    • Posts: 74 Member
      I don't have an HR monitor, but I figure that my treadmill numbers are fairly accurate because I have to enter my weight. I use those numbers over the ones given for the number of minutes in MFP.

      That's what I used to do also, but now I'm thinking i was logging double calories actually burned according to my hrm...........booo
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