deciphering between "moderate" and "light" effort
chelso0o
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I suppose this would be easier if I used a HRM, but when you don't have one what is the best way to figure out whether it is moderate or light effort? I figured that hard effort was similar to my 2K effort, but what about that gray area?
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HRMs can fool you too as different exercises will have variation in HR compared to perceived effort.
My triathlon coach loves to use your ability to talk as a measure of effort.........at a light or recovery effort you can sing, at a moderate effort you can speak in full sentences, approaching the top end of your aerobic threshold you can speak but would rather not & hitting your anaerobic threshold you're pretty much panting and can only sustain the effort for a brief period of time.
If your 2K pace is hard then probably moderate would be your 10K pace which has to be sustainable over a longer period.0 -
Someone asked a similar question below (see "Calculating effort" thread) a while back. I wear a HRM when I erg, and I find that even if I'm rowing fairly hard (sweating, HR 145-155, yelling at the kid NOT NOW when he asks how to build a ender portal in minecraft), my calories are generally 20% lower than what MFP gives me for "moderate" rowing. I have a PM4 and I switch display to calories (which shows average cal/hour), divide by 60, multiply by minutes. So I record moderate, then enter actual calories. I should probably just enter light, but I know I worked to hard to call it light!
Which is to say, I think MFP may overestimate calories burned.0
