When to stop your HRM

I stop mine when my heartrate is below 125. It's usually pretty high and it takes a good 5 minutes after I stop excersing.

I stop mine at the end of my workout. So I'm anxious to see what other people say!

I just start it when I start exercising and stop it the minute I'm done cooling down.

I stop mine at the end of my workout. So I'm anxious to see what other people say!

Isn't the point to see how many calories you burn during the workout? So if you workout for 30 min, why would you let your hrm run for 45 min? Won't that give you a false reading if your hrm says 300 cal after 45 min but you only log 30 min in MFP? I hope that makes sense. I'm confused on why you would log more calories than you burned in that 30 min.

I always stop mine as soon as I'm done working out. I figure if I burn a few extra than I record, it's just a bonus.

I stop mine when I finish my cool down stretches!

I always do the cooldown afterwards therefore I stop mine after the cooldown which for me is essentially the end of the workout.

I stop mine at the end of my workout. So I'm anxious to see what other people say!

Isn't the point to see how many calories you burn during the workout? So if you workout for 30 min, why would you let your hrm run for 45 min? Won't that give you a false reading if your hrm says 300 cal after 45 min but you only log 30 min in MFP? I hope that makes sense. I'm confused on why you would log more calories than you burned in that 30 min.

All in how specific we want to get. As an Engineer (you know the type) i like to get as specific as possible. I've been known to go down to as close as .001 of an inch when cutting room trim boards. OVERKILL!!

I believe that it is more of a cause/effect measurement Vs. a snapshot of a moment. If i work out for 30 minutes i cause my heartrate to increase. Until it goes back to normal I am still feeling the effect of that workout. Our calorie counters are based on the ammt of calories needed for our bodies to remain the "same". So we take that number and subtract 500 or 1000 calories a day so we can burn to a target. So I see it as; any heart rate above the resting rate is equivalent to (some quantity) of snack we remove from the daily intake.

Example: My daily maintenance intake is 2760 calories. i want to lose 2 pounds a week, so I consume 1760 calories a day. One nature valley granola serving is 190 calories (2 bars). So if i wanted to increase my calorie deficite for the day I could either eat just 1 of the bars, or i could increase my heartrate for a little while.

everything we track is based off of a standard calculation that we've done. The basis is (for me) those 2760 calories a day, and a resting heart rate of 89 Bpm. Anything that changes that is something that we "should" record because it is above and beyond "maintenance".

I don't think anyone counts 100% of everything we consume or all the exercise we do (a 5 minute walk around your office "technically" counts for exercise). So it all depends on how precise you want everything to calculate out to.

I always stop mine as soon as I stop exercising. My reasoning is, I'm going to add these calories to what I'm allowed to eat for the day. Technically, you should be subtracting the amount of calories you would already be burning if you weren't working out, since MFP has figured that in to your goal for the day. Allowing it to continue to run is adding calories to that amount compounding the problem of adding too many calories for the workout. I'd rather be slightly under than over when adding this amount to MFP.

This is exactly right. People say that MFP over-estimates the amount of cals burned but in my experience, the MFP estimates are fairly close to my HRM readings. What people don't factor for, are the natural amount of cals burned in the time it took you to workout.

Eg. 2 hours exercise and 1000 cals logged, according to MFP. I would estimate something like 300 cals woud have been burned by anyway, in this time - so I have actually earned 700 EXTRA cals for consumption (if I want to eat them all back) NOT 1000 cals, as per the MFP adjustment. I think this is why the amount of actual weight loss doesn't match the deficits. At least for me - this is how it works

So yes, for me - I record the figure I have burned as soon as I leave the gym floor.

I don't think its going to matter too much if you wanted to wait, as your heart rate will come down fairly quickly (and progressively faster the fitter you get) But personally i just stop it when I finish - I might forget otherwise!
I also always make sure I subtract my TDEE for the length of time i'm working out.
The easiest way to do this is to wear your HRM while you're not doing anything so you can work out how approx many calories you would burn normally, and subtract that from calories burned during your workout.

I didn't even think about this. Do most people do this? Now my head is spinning!

Some people do some people don't. Don't overthink things
It varies for me when I stop it, sometimes immediately after I am done, sometimes when my hr gets back to normal.....however you do it, is up to you

I stop mine at the end of my workout too. I figure, I want to track the whole block of time I'm spending exercising.