Heart Rate Monitor Calorie Challenge

hey HRM ladies! haven't really been hearing much from ya but hope everyone is making us of their HRM's.
I am finally back to using it everyday and I'm glad I have been able to get my workuots in.

Happy thursday

Where is everybody?????

Hi Everybody,
I would love to join this thread - I'm waiting on my Polar FT4, it's bronze :blushing: , hahaha! Who cares right? I am just really excited to see if this will help me get a more accurate gauge on the energy i'm expending.
I currently do Jillian NMTZ, BFBM, all of the Turbo Jam the FIRM and WATP 5 Mi Fat Burning Walk in a rotation - I have commited to 3 days cardio and 3 days strength w/ 1 rest day.
Looking forward to the journey with you all,
Janet

i'm lurking til my HRM arrives

So, I just received my Polar FT60 today, and I'd love to join up if it's not too late.

I wore it for about an hour at work today and nobody could even tell I was wearing the WearLink strap under my shirt. I'm going to put it through it's paces tonight at the gym. I ordered a T31C strap so I can wear it swimming as well.

So far, I'm really impressed.

I do have one question though ...

Do I need to subtract my RMR calories from the total calories burned? Or does the polar already do that for me? I don't want MFP to credit me for a couple hundred free calories I don't really deserve!

:glasses:

do you wear it all day? I only wear it during my workouts so I don't have to add/subtract anything.

I haven't posted for a couple of weeks, so I'll play catch up. For the week ending 4/18, I burned 2256 calories. This last week, I only burned 2066. My attempts to increase to 7 days a week haven't done too well yet, especially since I opted to get an extra 1-1/2 hours of sleep this morning instead of getting up to work out.

My gym offers an annual free "fitness update" which includes calculating your "polar fitness age" and redoing a weight training program for you. Since my last polar fitness age calculation (last August when I joined the gym), I've lost 30 pounds and 14 years! I'm actually 42, but my PFA last August was 52 and it's now 38. Yippee! :happy: However, I'm supposed to start adding some weight training, and she showed me some exercises on Saturday and my legs are still sore! I will get up and run tomorrow morning, though! I'm doing Couch to 10K and have increased my jogging speed during the running intervals from my previous 4.5 mph (embarassingly slow) to 6.0 mph. I tried to do week 4 day 2 after the weight training work out on Saturday and had to give up after about 30 minutes. I hope my legs feel better in the morning!

Hope everyone else has a great week!

Looks like this challenge might be dead?

At any rate, this week I burned 7332 calories in 10 hours and 24 minutes.

:drinker:

Looks like this challenge might be dead?

At any rate, this week I burned 7332 calories in 10 hours and 24 minutes.

:drinker:

congratulations! that's awesome work! holy crap! I struggle to get into the 2000 calories zone hahaha
well u are doing great so keep it up! I have the polar f6 but that doesnt give me a smiley face or anything and it doesnt tell me how long I shud our shouldn't be in any HR zone. perhaps your HRM is more advanced than mine.

WELCOME BACK! bronze gemini! glad to have u back. and don't worry if u need to devote time to ur mom we understand!

Last week I only wore my HRM 2x but it read 1060 cals in something like 2hr:30mins which I am completely happy with.

hey guys I know this isnt a daily check in but just wanted to say I'm so happy that I worked out hard yesterday at the gym and managed to burn over 500 calories! wooo hooo! usually it's hard for me to get up to 400 in one session but I gave it my all and glad I did. I was famished for dinner tho and kept snacking even after i ate a healthy dinner. oh well. weight training today and that never goes more than 250 - 300cals.

Last week was decent, even though I only made it to the gym three nights. I wound up skipping Saturday because I spent the day doing yard work. That should count for something!

I managed to burn 5451 calories in 7 hours and 55 minutes. I was shooting for 8000 calories but I'll try again this week.

On the plus side, my FT-60 rewarded me with 3 stars and a trophy! It seems you can train as much as you like in Zone 1 as long as your Zone 2 and 3 targets are relatively spot on.

Last week was decent, even though I only made it to the gym three nights. I wound up skipping Saturday because I spent the day doing yard work. That should count for something!

I managed to burn 5451 calories in 7 hours and 55 minutes. I was shooting for 8000 calories but I'll try again this week.

On the plus side, my FT-60 rewarded me with 3 stars and a trophy! It seems you can train as much as you like in Zone 1 as long as your Zone 2 and 3 targets are relatively spot on.

wow u are doing awesome! 3 nights and all of 5451 cals? I don't think I cud burn that much even if i worked out everyday!

well i also only had 3 workouts last week and my total calories were around 1500. not great I know but will try again this week to atleast make it to 2500. tonight, I won't eat dinner til I've worked for it. so 500 calories atleast~!

This past week was pretty good. I succeeded in hitting over 2000 calories during each of the four days I went to the gym.

That puts me at 8166 calories in 11 hours and 21 minutes.

that's awesome, but holy crap I can barely make it to 2000 a week. Not that I'm trying to doubt you, but just make sure your height, age, and weight are correct on your HRM cuz wow, that almost seems humanly impossible. what kind of workouts do u do and for how long?

All my personal settings are correct in my HRM. It's a Polar FT-60, so I'm fairly confident in it's assessment. Also, take in to consideration that I'm still packing around quite a bit of extra weight, so just by default I burn more calories than an average-sized person.

I go to the gym four nights a week, and I'm usually there for 3-4 hours at a stretch. My usual routine is roughly 80 minutes on the elliptical or treadmill, 30 minutes of circuit training, 60 minutes of swimming laps. I'll work out on the elliptical or treadmill until I hit at least 1000 calories (time permitting), and If I've got time and energy, I'll try to burn off a couple hundred more. Then I'll do my circuit / strength training, which take me about half an hour and clocks in around 300 - 350 calories. My basic routine is Ab Coaster for a minute, running on the treadmill for a minute, lift something heavy, repeat. After that I hit the pool. I find I burn about 100 calories for every 10 minutes I spend swimming laps. I can burn more faster depending on the stroke, but that's the average. The gym closes at 10:00 and many nights I'm still in the pool at 9:50, furiously trying to burn off those last few calories to get me over 2000 for the day.

After I get home from the gym, I upload all the data to the Polar website. Here's a screen shot of my workouts from last week:


Edit: It seems MFP is cutting off part of the image. Sunday is there, it's just not being displayed. Here's a link to the full image: http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz92/cmw72/polar.jpg

ps. I didnt even know u cud upload ur data online nor do I know how to do it, so kudos for being so technology -savvy.