HRM Cals Burned - Fitness experts advice please!

You are way over thinking things. Just record what your trusty hrm says and be good with that. If you have hit a plateau than stop and reevaluate your goals and eating habits. Up the food intake maybe or change your workout routine for two weeks and see what shakes your body up.

This is some good advice, weightloss is probably 75% diet, maybe even more. And it is important to change up your workout routine. Once your body becomes accustomed to that workout, you may see less results. I reevaluate about every month or two. But, everyone is different so listen to your body, experiment a little.

My comments early wasn't to belittle you. I saw some of your bullying comments. It was more to help. I know for me, to keep this going I had to make it as easy as possible, which is part of the reason why it was hard for me at first to change up my exercise routine. I use to just walk for exercise, then went to walk/jog, then went to jog, then went to run. Then incorporated other cardio machines, then did a little of each cardio machines. Now doing weights and cardio and depending on the days, some days are heavy lifting and light cardio, some are 50% cardio/50% weights days, and some are just cardio.

Keep dong what your doing, experiment a little bit and don't be afraid to change it up a little.

You are way over thinking things. Just record what your trusty hrm says and be good with that. If you have hit a plateau than stop and reevaluate your goals and eating habits. Up the food intake maybe or change your workout routine for two weeks and see what shakes your body up.

This is some good advice, weightloss is probably 75% diet, maybe even more. And it is important to change up your workout routine. Once your body becomes accustomed to that workout, you may see less results. I reevaluate about every month or two. But, everyone is different so listen to your body, experiment a little.

My comments early wasn't to belittle you. I saw some of your bullying comments. It was more to help. I know for me, to keep this going I had to make it as easy as possible, which is part of the reason why it was hard for me at first to change up my exercise routine. I use to just walk for exercise, then went to walk/jog, then went to jog, then went to run. Then incorporated other cardio machines, then did a little of each cardio machines. Now doing weights and cardio and depending on the days, some days are heavy lifting and light cardio, some are 50% cardio/50% weights days, and some are just cardio.

Keep dong what your doing, experiment a little bit and don't be afraid to change it up a little.

No, your comment was really helpful. I was thanking you for yours

it was the couple of others I found hurtful. I am so twisted up with trying to explain the original issue and trying to undo all of the confusion, I think the whole thread is lost now! :blushing: I will just take everyones advice and chill out, change up the exercise, revise what I am eating and ignore the HRM conundrum for now. I hope that will mean goodbye Platau.

oh, ok, I feel better now, thanks for clarifying. keep up the good work.

Hey guys, just some advice really.

I am using my new HRM for a few weeks now (Which I love!!)

I am basically taking the total calories on the display, dividing it by the total mins it has been recording my efforts and then multiplying this number by the actually amount of mins I was in the Target heart rate (cardio / fatburing zone).

e.g. 60 mins work out, 400 cals. In target HR for 45 mins = 300cals burned in reality.

Is this giving me the most accurate reading?

Thanks peeps

I used to be a member of the weightloss resources site and on there if you wanted to manually enter your calorie burn from your hrm there was a box (saying background calories) you had to tick to deduct them.

I was surprised this site did not have that option on here.

Me too!!! That's where I got this idea from! I am so glad at least some people know what I am on about, even if we all are as "mad" as each other. (I am not calling you mad BTW):laugh:

I have been known to be described as mad
I have actually wanted to ask the same question before but I didn't know how to explain it.
When we are being advised to eat all our exercise calories we don't want to overeat them,it be "only"be 100-200 a time but it all adds up.
So I totally understand where you are coming from :flowerforyou:

In amongst all of this you have had the correct advice. It might be considered making things complicated but if you want to eat as close to your target calories as possible (which you do if you are in a plateau or close to your target) then it is important to deal with the complexity.

So here is an example I used in a thread yesterday...

My suggested BMR = 2400
Exercise = 600 cals
Duration = 60 minutes

60 minutes of my BMR = (2400 / 24) 100 cals - these are what is being described as background calories in this thread

Net exercise is (600 - 100) 500.

I could easily have between 60 and 90 minutes exercise a day - which could result in 700-1000 calories of difference over a week. I'd rather get it as accurate as possible - especially down at the 0.5-1lb per week loss or maintenance.

That said your daily activity varies as well which is why I'm now adding a fitbit to my gadgets. Today I'm on an 1840 target (-500 cals deficit) and I added another 634 through HRM monitored exercise and another 650 in general activity tracked by the fitbit (above sedentary).

You'll never be 100% but I do think it is worth being as close as you can - for when you get to maintenance. The more you understand about your body, metabolism and exercise the better - IMVHO.