people who use a HRM

bikinibeliever
bikinibeliever Posts: 832 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Do you think MPF's on target with amount of calories burned? I just logged my walking for yesterday and it seems high at 956 for 60 minutes at 3mph and 2 hours of slow paced. I sure don't want to be cheating myself!

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  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    I found MFP to be 20-30% too high for most of my activities logged after I got my HRM. I think if you make the habit of eating back about half - or a little more if you're feeling hungry - your MFP exercise calories, you'll be fine.
  • egdanger1
    egdanger1 Posts: 59 Member
    After I bought my HRM I found that I actually burned more calories than MFP had.
  • bikinibeliever
    bikinibeliever Posts: 832 Member
    I found MFP to be 20-30% too high for most of my activities logged after I got my HRM. I think if you make the habit of eating back about half - or a little more if you're feeling hungry - your MFP exercise calories, you'll be fine.

    Thank you! I will take that as gospel after seeing your results, terrific!! :flowerforyou:
  • strongnotskinny121
    strongnotskinny121 Posts: 329 Member
    I love my HRM and found MFP to over estimate some things and under estimate others.
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    I found MFP to be 20-30% too high for most of my activities logged after I got my HRM. I think if you make the habit of eating back about half - or a little more if you're feeling hungry - your MFP exercise calories, you'll be fine.

    Thank you! I will take that as gospel after seeing your results, terrific!! :flowerforyou:

    Thanks! No gospel, I just know what my results were and what I've read here that for MOST people, it overestimates most activities. I had a few activities (yoga, Pilates) that MFP was too low...

    If you can invest, my HRM was the best fitness purchase I made last year and I got a Polar on Amazon for about $65. It was worth every penny. Good luck to you!
  • bikinibeliever
    bikinibeliever Posts: 832 Member
    After I bought my HRM I found that I actually burned more calories than MFP had.

    Ah shucks...:laugh: ....I thought for sure it was too high and everyone would say so. I'll see what some others say and if it is mixed I will go buy a HRM. Thank you! :smile:
  • yesthistime
    yesthistime Posts: 2,051 Member
    MFP overestimates my calories burned by ~25% on most cardio exercises.
  • bikinibeliever
    bikinibeliever Posts: 832 Member
    Thanks for your input everyone! :flowerforyou:

    I lost a pound this week and I was eating back all my calories burned. I set my goal for a 2 pound loss each week so I will go with the 20-30% of not using exercise calories. But I am happy with my loss!! :smile:
  • suzzann666
    suzzann666 Posts: 334 Member
    for myself, MFP underestimates calories burned compared to my HRM.. i think the intensity with which you workout with causes the variance.
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