When do I turn off the HRM after exercise?

Meleahb
Meleahb Posts: 8 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
My awesome husband brought me a HRM (Polar FT7). I wore it this morning doing a 5km interval run, 8 minutes run 2 minutes walk. It took me 40 minutes and 500 calories. I didn't stop the monitor and now after only 1/2 hour I have burnt another 315 calories. What do I record on MFP? I'm actually thinking of wearing all day just to see how much I burn a day.

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  • Erienneb
    Erienneb Posts: 592 Member
    I turn mine off once my heart rate reaches normal resting range. That way, I record everything burnt that's "abnormal" because of the workout, since my lifestyle is sent to sedintary because I work an office job.
  • luckylissette
    luckylissette Posts: 24 Member
    I have the same HRM and love it! I try to turn it off right after I'm done with whatever I'm doing, (running, cycling, walking, etc) to get a measure of what I burned during the activity, but I often forget until a half hour later at times. Either way, what I usually pull is average and max HR, so it' really doesn't affect those numbers much.
  • Mads1997
    Mads1997 Posts: 1,494 Member
    As soon as I finish the exercise I'm doing. I don't count warm up or cool down time.

    HRMs are not intended for measuring daily activity so you won't get an acurate reading if wearing it all day.
  • Meleahb
    Meleahb Posts: 8 Member
    Thanks for your feed back. I guess it was just very interesting to actually see how much I burnt and how the heart :heart: rate was. I will now only record 500 cal instead of 800.:happy:
  • missytrishy
    missytrishy Posts: 203 Member
    If you're interested in knowing what you burn all day you can get a FitBit or a BodyBugg. They are meant to be worn all day. I even wear my FitBit at night becuase it keeps track of how long I sleep and how restless I am.
  • Chipmaniac
    Chipmaniac Posts: 642 Member
    Stop it as soon as you are done with the activity. Your heart beating faster, in itself, doesn't actually burn many calories at all. Instead, it is correlated heavily with the amount of calories your entire body is burning during exercise. When you are not exercising, the only extra energy you are burning is the energy your heart itself requires to beat faster. Your large muscles (e.g. leg muscles) are at rest. Thus, the burn rate recorded by your heart rate monitor will be vastly overstated until you reach your normal resting rate.
  • marieautumn
    marieautumn Posts: 928 Member
    Hit 'stop' right after you have finished your work out otherwise you're decreasing the calories per minute you burned so you can't gauge how hard your body was workin. Wearing it all day isn't necessary since it will not give you an accurate reading.
  • tommygirl15
    tommygirl15 Posts: 1,012 Member
    I stop mine a minute or two after my workout, when my heart rate goes down a bit.

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