HRM and RMR

PrincessNikkiBoo
PrincessNikkiBoo Posts: 330 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Just wondering,

does anyone else deduct their RMR from HRM burns before logging?

I read that this was the most accurate way to record when eating back exercise calories.

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  • ironmanwannabe
    ironmanwannabe Posts: 81 Member
    I dont just because the portion of HRM-RMR for that period of time is not significant.

    ie

    My RMR is about 2000
    I exercise for 1 hour and burn 800 calories

    My RMR for that time is about 1/24*2000-83 calories
    My exercise is 800. So the difference is 717. And since I shut off my HRM right after I am done exercising, I lose the elevated calorie burn for the 15-30 mins after that. So that in itself makes up for it.

    You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so and not have to worry about the math if you still feel you need to account for this discrepancy!

    Hope that helps!
  • PrincessNikkiBoo
    PrincessNikkiBoo Posts: 330 Member
    I dont just because the portion of HRM-RMR for that period of time is not significant.

    ie

    My RMR is about 2000
    I exercise for 1 hour and burn 800 calories

    My RMR for that time is about 1/24*2000-83 calories
    My exercise is 800. So the difference is 717. And since I shut off my HRM right after I am done exercising, I lose the elevated calorie burn for the 15-30 mins after that. So that in itself makes up for it.

    You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so and not have to worry about the math if you still feel you need to account for this discrepancy!

    Hope that helps!

    hmm I didn't take into account the elevated burn afterwards. What do you mean by "You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so?"
  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    I don't... nothing we do in all this is accurate enough for me to worry about 50ish cals. I'm sure some other estimate (cals eaten, cals burned, tdee, brm, etc) is off by 50ish cals.

    More important is to log the same way consistently for a month or so, then evaluate your results. If, based on your calculations/estimates, you are expecting to see a weight loss but you actually see a weight gain, then your estimates are probably off and you can tweak appropriately. If you expect a weight loss and see a weight loss, then keep going.
  • ironmanwannabe
    ironmanwannabe Posts: 81 Member
    I dont just because the portion of HRM-RMR for that period of time is not significant.

    ie

    My RMR is about 2000
    I exercise for 1 hour and burn 800 calories

    My RMR for that time is about 1/24*2000-83 calories
    My exercise is 800. So the difference is 717. And since I shut off my HRM right after I am done exercising, I lose the elevated calorie burn for the 15-30 mins after that. So that in itself makes up for it.

    You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so and not have to worry about the math if you still feel you need to account for this discrepancy!

    Hope that helps!

    hmm I didn't take into account the elevated burn afterwards. What do you mean by "You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so?"

    I was suggesting that you count your RMR as 50 calories higher than it actually is. This would save you the trouble of having to worry about the difference as you would account for it everyday. My sugguestion is to not worry about the difference. I am most likely 100+ calories off per day anyways. :)
  • PrincessNikkiBoo
    PrincessNikkiBoo Posts: 330 Member
    I dont just because the portion of HRM-RMR for that period of time is not significant.

    ie

    My RMR is about 2000
    I exercise for 1 hour and burn 800 calories

    My RMR for that time is about 1/24*2000-83 calories
    My exercise is 800. So the difference is 717. And since I shut off my HRM right after I am done exercising, I lose the elevated calorie burn for the 15-30 mins after that. So that in itself makes up for it.

    You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so and not have to worry about the math if you still feel you need to account for this discrepancy!

    Hope that helps!

    hmm I didn't take into account the elevated burn afterwards. What do you mean by "You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so?"

    I was suggesting that you count your RMR as 50 calories higher than it actually is. This would save you the trouble of having to worry about the difference as you would account for it everyday. My sugguestion is to not worry about the difference. I am most likely 100+ calories off per day anyways. :)

    Forgive me but I'm still confused, not sure how I would do it.
  • ironmanwannabe
    ironmanwannabe Posts: 81 Member
    I dont just because the portion of HRM-RMR for that period of time is not significant.

    ie

    My RMR is about 2000
    I exercise for 1 hour and burn 800 calories

    My RMR for that time is about 1/24*2000-83 calories
    My exercise is 800. So the difference is 717. And since I shut off my HRM right after I am done exercising, I lose the elevated calorie burn for the 15-30 mins after that. So that in itself makes up for it.

    You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so and not have to worry about the math if you still feel you need to account for this discrepancy!

    Hope that helps!

    hmm I didn't take into account the elevated burn afterwards. What do you mean by "You can also just bump up your RMR 50 or so?"

    I was suggesting that you count your RMR as 50 calories higher than it actually is. This would save you the trouble of having to worry about the difference as you would account for it everyday. My sugguestion is to not worry about the difference. I am most likely 100+ calories off per day anyways. :)

    Forgive me but I'm still confused, not sure how I would do it.

    If your RMR is 1400, just change it to 1450. That would take care of this discrepency of not subtracting off the RMR from your calories burned from exercise in a day. But as stated above, I wouldnt bother with this as it just complicates this. The after burn of your exercise should make up for the difference between calories burned from exercise and your RMR for the exercise period.

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