How often do you adjust your weight on HRM?

Poeticmoe · February 2012

I bought at Polar FT4 and have been using it for a week. Love it, by the way! Just curious - how often am I supposed to adjust my weight in the settings, as I lose the weight? I'm already 5 lbs down from my starting weight, so I adjusted my weight in the HRM to reflect that.

Do you adjust your weight every time you weigh in and your weight changes, once a week, etc? What have you been doing? Just need to make sure I continue to keep my HRM up to date with my info, so it calculates my calories burned accurately.

Thanks!

dad106 · February 2012

I adjusted mine every time that my weight went down... so pretty much once a week

Poeticmoe · February 2012

That's what I was thinking. I think I'll update my weight on my HRM once a week, when I weigh in, and there's a change.

Thanks for responding.

japruzze · February 2012

Never thought about it...guess I better adjust it!

DL121004 · February 2012

I'm not sure it makes that much difference if the weight loss is low.

For example, I've seen something that indicated that over the course of one hour, running a 11.5 minute mile, you burn about 4 Calories per pound. So for example, a person weighing 200 pounds would burn about 800 Calories running 5.2 miles in an hour. Running the same distance in the same time, a 198 pound person would burn 8 less Calories, or 792.

Poeticmoe · February 2012

So should I wait till there is a bigger gap in my weight loss difference, like every 10 lbs lost?

sllm1 · February 2012

I adjust mine every five pounds. Then I'm not fooling around with it all the time and I feel accomplished that I've lost five pounds so I get to update my HRM.

SteveHunt113 · February 2012

I adjust mine every five pounds. Then I'm not fooling around with it all the time and I feel accomplished that I've lost five pounds so I get to update my HRM.

That's a great idea! It's like a motivational treat!

Chrissie_R · February 2012

oops i should adjust mine too !!

Edjeep · February 2012

I got my HRM a several weeks backs. I started adjusting every 5 pounds in advance. By doing it advance, I figure I am actually burning a few more then reported when I just changed it and I don't see how that is a bad thing. That's like every 2 weeks at my current weight loss rate. I just don't want to fiddle with the hrm, put it on and get going! But that's just me.