daily calorie burn tracker?

mlcrec
mlcrec Posts: 66
edited January 11 in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone know if there is a somewhat inexpensive device that you can use to track how many calories you burn throughout the day or how do you measure what you burn doing weight training? Any tips would be great!
Thanks,
Michelle

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  • mollylookalike
    mollylookalike Posts: 60 Member
    I got a heartrate monitor that connects via bluetooth to my iPhone from Amazon, and I love it. There are a bunch of different apps you can use with it. Here's the link:

    http://www.amazon.com/60beat-BLUE-Heart-Monitor-iPhone/dp/B0096DM3ES/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1359753703&sr=8-12&keywords=bluetooth+hrm
  • sandradev1
    sandradev1 Posts: 786 Member
    If you are buying something like a heart rate monitor purely to monitor calorie burn, I would definitely suggest not spending that much as none of them are completely accurate anyway and depending on the type of exercise you are doing they can actually be useless - like with weight lifting.

    If however, you are also interested in monitoring your heart rate during exercise, then it will be more worth spending money on. I have the Polar FT4 which works well and is easy to set up. I use it for checking my heart rate during heavy lifts with free weights and for keeping myself 'in zone' when doing cardio.

    Calorie burn during exercise is something that is usually only estimated at best, but is still useful if you are eating back your calories.

    Hope this helps.

    :flowerforyou:
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    For all day use- fitbit or bodymediafit. For exercise - HRM. Do a search- you'll find lads of info on them.
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