Using HRMs...

i usually switch mine on as soon as i get on the first machine. i dont really pause it when i switch machines though i probably should. after my workout, sometimes i walk home which will take about 15 minutes and other days i jump on a bus. if i am walking home i keep the hrm on until i get home and count the walking calories as well. if i am taking the bus i switch it off when i get to the bus stop.

I stop mine when my heart rate gets back to normal after I finish. What it was before I started the exercise. I figure while my heart rate is still up, why not get credit for the calories that are still burning.

I wouldn't pause it unless you're going for time instead of calorie burn. You'll still be burning calories with an elevated heart rate between machines.

Yup, I log the time as when I've stopped, but log the burn as what it reads when I get into the changing room...I'm still pounding out an elevated HR, and it takes the HRM a minute or two to catch up

Well - I use mine while I'm out riding my bike, and it's tied into a GPS location recording system, so I actually switch it on a short way from where I live, outside the local police officers house. That way, if someone looks online, sees that I ride a nice bike, and where I ride it from and to, and decides to break into the the house to get it, he finds the local fuzz ready to greet him :laugh:

lol, as funny as this is, i dont think you have answered the question being asked.

Well - I use mine while I'm out riding my bike, and it's tied into a GPS location recording system, so I actually switch it on a short way from where I live, outside the local police officers house. That way, if someone looks online, sees that I ride a nice bike, and where I ride it from and to, and decides to break into the the house to get it, he finds the local fuzz ready to greet him :laugh:

lol, as funny as this is, i dont think you have answered the question being asked.

it does, kind of - I don't switch the HRM on until I start riding properly - i.e. After I've called at the local police officer's house. It then stays on for the entire duration of my ride, although it's set up to switch itself into pause mode when I'm not moving - i.e. stuckat traffic lights etc. and back on as I move away. If I'm on a long enough ride to merit a "Cafe stop after a couple of hours, then again, i'll switch off the HRM and GPS. I'm only interested in the energy I expend on the bike.

If I WAS a gym-user (god forbid!!) then I think I'd hit the pause button between sessions/machines - just walking around/standing between sessions should be accounted for in your normal calories from MFP, I'd say...