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Heart Rate monitor

Samantha8875
Samantha8875 Posts: 2
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Recently, I recieved a Polar heart rate monitor as a gift. Its an FS1. Since it's one of the lower end monitors, it doesn't count calories. Anyone know of how to calculate calories without the monitor doing it for you? Website suggestions? Anything? Since it was a gift I can't return the monitor, and it seems silly to let a perfectly good heart rate monitor go to waste because I can't figure out how to calculate my calories burned!

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  • debmac63
    debmac63 Posts: 459 Member
    You can try caloriesperhour.com. Before I got my HRM I would google several websites and average them out. Calories per hour website does a pretty good job. If I were you I would try to save my money and get an HRM that calculates your calories burned... that way you're not guessing.
  • JustAmy
    JustAmy Posts: 291
    http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm comes pretty close to matching my hrm calculations ~ enjoy!
  • Samantha8875
    Samantha8875 Posts: 2
    Thanks for all the help!! I appreciate it!
  • lilchino4af
    lilchino4af Posts: 1,292 Member
    http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm comes pretty close to matching my hrm calculations ~ enjoy!
    I was just going to list this, however it's not completely accurate. I put in the info for my workout this morning and it's about 65 calories lower than what I really did, but it's pretty close.

    Tried same on caloriesperhour.com and it was much closer, although 40 calories over, hehe. Guess you could do both and take the average to get what it really is ;)
  • JustAmy
    JustAmy Posts: 291
    http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm comes pretty close to matching my hrm calculations ~ enjoy!
    I was just going to list this, however it's not completely accurate.

    I did say pretty close ~ not perfect:smile:
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