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I think you came to the right place. There are a lot of people here who have/have had some variation on what you're faced with, people who have done a lot of hard work on themselves and will be more than happy to help you. As far as asking for a broscience diagnosis about an eating disorder, well, you might want to talk to…
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I've been struggling with Polar HRMs for years. I'm in my mid-sixties, so knowing my heart rate isn't just some interesting bit of trivia, especially when doing intervals. Things that have helped include: Make sure the strap is clean-wash with soap every few times out. Fresh batteries. Make sure the contacts are wet, or…
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64 y.o. male here, 6', 183lbs, I can average just over 11 calories a minute for a sixty minute spin, but that does take some concentration. Never been able to break 12. (Polar FT-4)
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All good advice. Don't sweat the zones, turn off the tedious little alarm, done.
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I'm male, at 183lb trying to get to 180. I do an hour of spin 3x week, if I really push it I can average 11+ calories/minute in that hour. Can't seem to break 12. (Polar FT-4) I can't imagine burning 1000 in 45 minutes. Tour de France, maybe? Someone who knows more about this?
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That'll do it sometimes. Also, wet the contacts on the strap where it contacts your skin. You can also try electrode gel for this, the stuff they use for sonograms. Make sure your battery isn't too old, sometimes that will do it. If nothing else helps you may eventually need a new strap. (I've been struggling with these…
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I've been using Polar HRMs for more than ten years. If you do some poking around on the net you'll find a lot of people who are having the same experience-things are fine for a while, and then the display becomes unreliable. Clean strap, tight strap, electrode gel, new batteries, reset, all these help for a while,…
