HRM

alligator1970
alligator1970 Posts: 52
edited September 19 in Fitness and Exercise
How do you calculate calories using the Heart rate monitor?

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  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    As long as the one you have does indeed calculate that, it should be displayed. It doesn't tell you in the instructions?
  • alligator1970
    alligator1970 Posts: 52
    No it tells you how to determine your maximum heart rate and the relative heart rate. This one does not tell you calories. Mine is
    181 is my bpm and the relative heart rate is 45% based on my restign heart rate and my age
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    What brand of HRM is it?
  • ccleadbyexample
    ccleadbyexample Posts: 178
    Yeah most HRM will have a setting on there to display how many calories you are burning as well. Mine I have to change the view to get it to show..but I can just sit here and watch myself burn cals much like a body bugg! Oh just burnt another one:)
    Let us know what you have!
  • alligator1970
    alligator1970 Posts: 52
    It is a sportsline watch.
  • alligator1970
    alligator1970 Posts: 52
    It has a mode that says CHR but nothing in this manual says anything about waht that is...if you hit sty/stp it starts a timer...
  • alligator1970
    alligator1970 Posts: 52
    Okay that mode looks like jsut a timer...so there has to be a way to calculate your calories burned based on how long you are at your maximum heart rate during excercising right?
  • thumper44
    thumper44 Posts: 1,464 Member
    What kind of sportline watch is it?

    You sure that the "timer" is not exercise mode?

    Other HRM's when we start exercising for calorie burn, it starts a timer.
    Press a few buttons takes us to another screen to show us calories burned.
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    There should be, but how to do that I'm not sure. Hopefully someone here can help you.
  • alligator1970
    alligator1970 Posts: 52
    It is a solo 900. I have looked in the whole book and nothing tells you about how many calories? The package does not see it does that either. Strange. Did I get a dud? :sad: It is not going to be really helpful if it does not tell me that :noway:
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    The watch is a heart rate monitor and timer only. It does not calculate calories. As a fingertip-touch heart rate sensor that requires you to stop exercising to take your pulse reading, I'm not sure it monitors heart rate all that well either.
  • thumper44
    thumper44 Posts: 1,464 Member
    Correct, as Azdak said, HRM and timer.

    Did you just buy it?
    Can you try to take it back and get a better one?

    The majority of people on here who have one, seem to have one with a chest strap.
  • peapods02
    peapods02 Posts: 27
    I just bought the Polar f6 on Amazon for $88 ( best price I could find, since I'm a cheap skate) and it comes with the chest strap. I am pretty happy :happy: because I found the best price, plus I can't wait to see how off my calories have been from using MFP.

    About 3 or 4 weeks ago I bought that S12 or whatever brand that Wal-Mart had, spent $40, and it crapped out :angry: after the second workout (straight back to the store it went). So I decided that I was just going to spend a little more money for a better product, and hopefully I won't have any problems with it.

    hope you get everything worked out alright.:smile:
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