My first HRM

Good Luck I love mine I wear it a lot and have been surprised by the results each time It is a great way to keep track of your calories more accurately! Have fun!

Hi! Yea!!! I got my Polar F6 three days ago. I too was amazed at the difference in calories. Good luck with yours. :drinker:


Nickie


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I have an F6 and I love it. The only thing... I got it in December and already the battery has died twice. Lame, because you have to send it in to get the battery replaced and that takes weeks. I don't know if there is something wrong with mine, or if that's just the way it is? Anyone?

I'd like to inform that I found my polar F6 was calculating a little too much.

It seems that your resting heart rate might be quite important in deciding how many calories are burned.

When I got mine, I had set it up. But at somepoint I wore mine for 24 hours ( just to check it out). Then I went on exercising for a few weeks. I thought I was burning more calories because over weight etc, than some others.

I decided to look at my settings again, and it looks like my PolarF6 set the resting heart beat to a lower amount.
ie I had it up at 80's , it was down to 60. (I'm sure the watch changed this on it's own when I had it on for 24 hours).

To test it, I had changed it back up to 90. I ended up exercising, relaxing, and later on ended up checkign it, and it was set to 85.

So I'm assuming that the polar F6 (can't speak for other models).. will pick up the lowest heartrate you have while exercising and set it as your resting rate.

Something to check out.

I just used my new polar F6 for the first time :happy:
I want to revisit the resting heart rate issue to see if I understand this. On my polar, it's currently set at 60. Does this mean the polar only counts calories when my HR is above 60? Or does it substract out those calories to prevent double counting them, as they are already counted in one's BMR?

Banks mentioned something in another thread about substracting out 90-140 cal/hr to prevent double counting. If I remember correctly he said MFP does substract those out, but the polar doesn't.

Today I walked for one hour, MFP gave me 326 cal while the polar read 316 cal, but I'm not sure if I should be deducting out the BMR cal's from the Polar measurement.

Can someone clarify this?

I just used my new polar F6 for the first time :happy:
I want to revisit the resting heart rate issue to see if I understand this. On my polar, it's currently set at 60. Does this mean the polar only counts calories when my HR is above 60? Or does it substract out those calories to prevent double counting them, as they are already counted in one's BMR?

Banks mentioned something in another thread about substracting out 90-140 cal/hr to prevent double counting. If I remember correctly he said MFP does substract those out, but the polar doesn't.

Today I walked for one hour, MFP gave me 326 cal while the polar read 316 cal, but I'm not sure if I should be deducting out the BMR cal's from the Polar measurement.

Can someone clarify this?

You will find that the majority of the people won't bother with the (taking away resting cals).. ie polar said 316, use 316.... 10 calories isnt' going to make a difference.

In regards to the resting HR. I believe mine is/was higher than 60, and I had set it up to something like 90. The next time I looked at it, I believe it went back down to 85 or so.
So my thinking was that the Polar saw a lower HR while in "exercise mode" and changed the resting heart rate to that amount.

If you know your BMR then just divide it by 24 to find out what your hourly burn is. Mines approx 58 calories an hour. I don't subtract them because I only eat like half of my exercise calories back.