Heart Rate Monitors accuracy

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  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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    HRM's are only designed for steady state cardio activity. They will not give you an accurate calorie burn if you wear them constantly.
  • madmickie
    madmickie Posts: 221 Member
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    There are two thing the HRM needs to do .. measure your HR and estimate calories burned

    Measuring your HR - probably does this pretty well - senses the heart's electrical activity and time between and works out HR - simple enough

    Calculating calories burned - many factors, age, weight, ambient temp, fitness, form, HR - it will take what you tell it, do some math and spit out an answer - probably way off - but hopefully consistently way off!!

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