Where do YOU convert your Heart Rate to Calories?

Oxmarqt
Oxmarqt Posts: 378 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Just curious what other people are using. I use this site --> http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx but have always wondered how acurate it was.

Let me know what you use so I can cross check my numbers!

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  • kshadows
    kshadows Posts: 1,315 Member
    I look at my wrist. The watch does all the calculations for me!
  • Chain_Ring
    Chain_Ring Posts: 753 Member
    Garmin Edge 500
  • darlilama
    darlilama Posts: 794 Member
    My Polar FT7 gives me the calories. :)
  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    Endomondo does the calc for me, but it knows my resting heart rate and my max heart rate.

    Assuming you're using the VO2 max version, the calculator you reference is "good enough" given the fairly large error band on converting heart rate to calories.
  • wrbiii
    wrbiii Posts: 151
    Just curious what other people are using. I use this site --> http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx but have always wondered how acurate it was.

    Let me know what you use so I can cross check my numbers!

    If you are using that, I so dearly hope you scroll down and get your net calories burned instead of putting your gross burn in.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    I have several phone apps synced with my Zephyr HRM, like Endomondo and iCardio. They do it for me, and I can compare them to make sure nothing is wildly off.
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    There is not a direct correlation between heart rate and caloric expenditure that is of any great significance. Obviously the heart is a muscle and the faster it beats the more calories it needs but in grand scheme of things it takes approximately the same number of calories for an unfit 200lb person to walk 2 miles as it does a fit person. (mass x distance)
  • 99clmsntgr
    99clmsntgr Posts: 777 Member
    Just curious what other people are using. I use this site --> http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx but have always wondered how acurate it was.

    Let me know what you use so I can cross check my numbers!

    I use this one, too. Average my non-VO2 Max and VO2 Max (estimated from my last 5K results) and calculate net calories burned. If it's a running work out, I get the "activity based calories" from their website and add that to my averaging (it tends to be a little more conservative than MFP's exercise database).

    I've used this one:

    http://www.calories-calculator.net/Calories_Burned_By_Heart_Rate.html

    for converting, too, but haven't in a while. Not sure why I stopped...just did.

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