Polar FT7 HRM, is it accurate?

I used mine pretty religiously during my major weight loss. I felt it gave me a much better calorie count than most any of the estimates I found.

I hope not, I just bought one haha. But all HRM's arent exactly on the dot with accuracy, but they are better than using machines calorie counter, or MFP calorie estimate, and I would have to say more accurate than estimating your average heart rate and calculating that way. Polar is a well known brand and I know a lot of people on here use that particular one.

I use mine daily... and my nutritionist said to log only 85% of the calories burned to account for what your body would be burning if you were sitting there doing absolutely nothing... 56 pounds down it hasnt failed me yet

So do you minus off 15% of your total burn?

Yes I have the same question. Why do you only log 85% of it again? do you eat back your calories? confused????
Do most people here using the polar HRM eat back their calories or not?

I have a polar HRM and I dont eat back my calories

1. 85% Gross calorie burn is what you burn exercising AND what you would have burned just living and breathing if you were lying down. With ANY heart rate monitors OR gym eqmt, if you are just going to eat back exercise calories, you have to separate our daily living from the exercise once you get the readout. MVP does this for you (getting your net number, albeit an estimate burn). When you use your own HR monitors, you can do it yourself by calculating about 85% of the reading, or go to "gross to net HR calculators" like this one to have it converted it for you: http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx

2. HR Monitors are only accurate for same state aerobic activity. They don't do as well with high intensity interval training, circuit training, or weight training. If you are keeping your heart rate up the whole time, they give a pretty good read...and it's more a problem of not having any better algorithms to use for these newer HIIT based types of workouts.

My info comes from what I understand from others who have explained it to me. I hope I got close.

I use mine daily... and my nutritionist said to log only 85% of the calories burned to account for what your body would be burning if you were sitting there doing absolutely nothing... 56 pounds down it hasnt failed me yet

So do you minus off 15% of your total burn?

Yes I subtract 15% from my total burn and log that amount for my records. I dont eat back my exercise calories anymore, its all figured into my daily activity.

Thanks