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  • Barre is seriously the best low-impact strength workout I have ever found. It's crazy how high your heart rate gets when you start shaking during an exercise (standing pretzel gets my HR up in the 170s if I'm doing it right).
    in Pure barre/bar method calorie burn? Comment by chicanery5 April 2014
  • Long answer: This will vary based on a lot of factors (height, weight, fitness level, amount of effort, what exercises they make you do in any individual class). I wear a HRM to class and I've burned between 210 and 330 calories in an hour class. A class with standing variations burns more than when you do seat work on the…
    in Pure barre/bar method calorie burn? Comment by chicanery5 April 2014
  • I don't know anything about that brand specifically (I have a Polar FT7), but did you enter in your gender, age, height and weight when you set it up? I had a friend who didn't realize that her HRM was preset for a hefty 6ft tall man for a while. That will skew your calories burned significantly. For reference, I currently…
    in Heart Rate Watch vs. Treadmill Calories Comment by chicanery5 April 2014
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