question about heart rate monitors on gym equipment

sky379
sky379 Posts: 46 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
On the equipment at the gym, there are silver handles that if you hold will tell you your heart rate...is this the same thing as a heart rate monitor? How does it work, because the calories burned said over 200, but when I put my hand on the heart rate monitor, it said around 180, and when I enter the workout into MFP, it says 173.

Also, when I did a different workout, the hear rate monitor on the machine said around 150 and the carlories burned said around 140, but on MFP, it says only 87 calories

are any of these correct/more approximate?

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  • mapnerd2005
    mapnerd2005 Posts: 363 Member
    They may be close if you entered your stats into the machine before you began exercising. There should be a way for your to enter your age, weight, height, and sex. If you did not do so, the machine is running the logarithms based on someone else's body stats.
  • xtina11179
    xtina11179 Posts: 352 Member
    I do enter my info into the equipment but I don't use the "Calories Burned" number. I do however keep track of my heart rate (as I do not have a hrm). I figure my average heart rate for the entire workout, then when I get home I plug all of my information in at this website: http://heartcalories.com/

    Although the Ellpitical Trainer gave me a number very close, I change my MFP "Calories Burned" to the number I received from this site. MFP had me over 800 while the website had me only at 570! :noway:

    Hopefully this helps!! Good luck!! :happy:
  • jkohan
    jkohan Posts: 184 Member
    In my personal experience, the readouts from the machines even with age, weight and target HR entered is very off from my HRM readings.
  • mhotch
    mhotch Posts: 901 Member
    I find that the gym equipment is about 30-40% higher then my HRM in calorie counts
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