Entering calories burned...??

shayjgordon
shayjgordon Posts: 90 Member
edited November 12 in Fitness and Exercise
This may be a silly question but...
I just bought a hrm and I had a thought when I was recording what I burned. Should I reduce the number by the amount of calories I would have burned by just sitting around? My bmr is 1766, so I would burn 73 calories per hour. If my hrm says that I burned 400 calories in a one hour workout, should I enter it as 400, or 327 (400-73)?
Thanks!

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  • trysha1231
    trysha1231 Posts: 163 Member
    I've been entering mine ias as the total burned. You want to feed your exercise calories, or so I've been told :)
  • htmlgirl
    htmlgirl Posts: 314 Member
    I don't know but I enter what the HRM says. I may eat 100-200 of my exercise calories, but rarely, if ever all of them.
  • yesthistime
    yesthistime Posts: 2,051 Member
    I just enter the total number burned. But I also wouldn't eat all of my exercise calories back, just in case the numbers are off a bit.
  • tarajeand
    tarajeand Posts: 10 Member
    That's funny...I wondered the same thing and asked my friends about it. It is depressing to take away the number we would have burned anyway, but that is what I have been doing. I do eat my exercise calories, so I figure that way I won't go over.
  • Caitlinhappymeal
    Caitlinhappymeal Posts: 185 Member
    depends which HRM you’ve got, suunto and scientific oregan already deduct bmr so you dont have to, all the other makes dont xx
  • shannoni_23
    shannoni_23 Posts: 25
    I definately don't deduct what I would've burned sitting around. It never occured to me. BUT if I was eating all of my calories back, I probably would think about doing that. My thing is set on 1280 cal/day. I actually aim for 1500 tho. So I guess I eat back about 220 of my work out cal.
  • shayjgordon
    shayjgordon Posts: 90 Member
    thanks guys! I think i'll just enter what my hrm says but eat back half or so.
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