Pedometer vs HRM
RoseGoldDinosaur
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Yesterday I went to Zumba with my heart rate monitor and was chatting with a friend about how it's so nice to burn 500-600 calories in an hour. He said "hundred? I burn thousands! My pedometer says so."
Sure enough at the end of the class my HRM said I'd burned 564 calories and his pedometer said he'd burned 3,400 calories. That can't be right can it? Even as a guy, he's only got maybe 50lbs on me.
Are pedometers that inaccurate when it comes to calorie count? Or do men really burn that many more calories than women?
Sure enough at the end of the class my HRM said I'd burned 564 calories and his pedometer said he'd burned 3,400 calories. That can't be right can it? Even as a guy, he's only got maybe 50lbs on me.
Are pedometers that inaccurate when it comes to calorie count? Or do men really burn that many more calories than women?
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Especially if he has a super cheap pedometer it really is that innaccurate!0
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Is it even physically possible to burn 3400 calories in an hour? I don't think so....
I also where an HRM when I go to Zumba and I burn anywhere between 500-550 calories .0 -
3400 is what you burn while climbing one day's leg of Mount Everest. An hour of Zumba ain't no Mount Everest0
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Thanks guys! I don't think correcting him will help as he seems to be certain he's right, but glad to know investing in a HRM was a good call0
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i wouldn't go quite that far. his pedometer giving him a faulty reading is most likely operator error and bears no reflection on the accuracy or lack thereof of your hrm0
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