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By stats you mean height, weight, age, etc? Male, 5'8", 140, 59. It was originally I think 100 but I got it on sale.
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Thanks for the info. It's actual an Armour39 HRM (an Under Armour product), that I always figured had an accurate algorithm - I usually get about 350-400 cal on a 3 mile run, which I've always assumed to be correct based on various calculators and on MapMyFitness and MFP estimates without the monitor. But, my assumptions…
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Good points and good advice - thanks. On the BMR, plugging my stats (59, 5'8, 140) into a bunch of online calculators, I get about 1400 cal/day, which is 1 cal/min, which seems consistent with my sleeping calorie burn that the Fitbit logs. I'll check the stride length and see what happens.
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In that case, I'm wondering what causes the calorie burn discrepancy when I've used both a chest strap monitor and the Fitbit to track my run. Right after I got the Fitbit, I ran 28 minutes. The chest strap showed 152 average BPM and 388 calories (recorded on MapMyFitness). The Fitbit showed 153 average BPM and 288…
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One last question - for the non-step based workouts I do, I have a pretty good sense of the calorie burn based from the chest strap HRM I've been using. But, my understanding is that, for lack of a better term, this number "includes" what my BMR would be. So, if my BMR is about 1 cal/minute (which is consistent on my…
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Thanks! I did all of those things - I guess my question is, for the step-based activity that Fitbit is tracking (without me manually logging it in), does it appear in MFP other than in the fitbit calorie adjustment line that lists total steps; i.e., does it appear as a line describing the activity (running, for example)…
