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*Claps hands* thankyou for putting this is an informative and understandable fashion, I was thinking many of the same points myself!

But then why assume a heart rate monitor is more accurate than MFP in the first place?

Yeah sounds like people are just saying that because you look so different. Whilst you are fairly tall, 130lbs would still be a very reasonable target weight. So I wouldn't listen to people, just be glad that they are noticing such big change in your appearance!

Personally I find it strange how there is this very popular misconception in America that HRM's can 'measure' your calorie usage more accurately than anything else, and that the results are guaranteed to be accurate. Over here in the UK there is no such myth; people rarely use heart rate monitors and when they do, it isn't…

what do you do for three hours that you count as exercise, and how do you track how many calories you have used?

I don't know much about the science behind it, but I certainly agree that music makes exercise far less stressful, and probably boosts outright performance by a small margin too. Hence in some races they ban the use of mp3 players, as they can be said to give an unfair advantage to those using them!

which ever you find allows you to burn the most calories is best for weight loss, regardless of how exactly it was you burned them. With you, and apparently with the vast majority of people, the cross trainer allows a higher calorie burn per hour, so stick with that! Many people prefer the treadmill as they want to get…

Ditto on finding proper running shoes. Also, whilst proper running clothes aren't essential i would highly recommend them - it can be very stressful and hot to run in tracksuits and normal cotton t-shirts, so try shorts and a light running top. Helps keep you cool and makes the whole experience a lot less stressful.…

Got my first marathon in October at Loch Ness in Scotland! Been running for years so am feeling very up to the challenge!

Its an awesome site, use it to track all runs on the treadmill or outside! Good for keeping track of mileage etc. I'm dhale750 if anyone wants to add!

Anything other than the most expensive, advanced HRM's are quite inaccurate, and even the best ones only provide a fairly educated guess at the number of calories burned. Remember, the purpose of a heart rate monitor is to monitor your heart rate for training purposes. Predicting calories burned is not what they are…

The idea that calorie burn is dependent upon heart rate is just marketing speak that appears to have sprung up in the US. Calories burned is dependent upon the total energy cost of the activity (the amount of work performed), nothing else.

This whole talk of heart rate "zones" and burning fat from calories is irrelevant for most people's purposes. In order to lose weight you need to focus on burning off the highest amount of overall calories, not focusing on keeping your heart rate in a certain "zone". That sort of theory is unhelpful and misleading. Your…

Good stuff, 10 miles is always a good landmark to reach!

A heart rate monitor has no real edge over online calculators such as this site or treadmill calculators in calculating calories burned. Although, thanks to a lot of clever marketing (only inthe US it seems, not over here) this is not the public perception. In reality, this talk of calories burned being different for…

Training for a run of any length consists of lots of running, simple really. Build your miles up in your runs and try and be able to run close to 10 miles before the race. You can do other forms of training, using weights etc. for example, but getting out there and putting a lot of miles into your training should be the…

If you're after a time that looks quite credible, then anything under 2 hours will do the job.

Lol seriously avoid the bears they will rip your entire face off.

Transitioning from outdoors to treadmill or vice versa is harder for some than for others. Personally, I find it harder maintaining the same speed on a treadmill than i do outside - it's to do with subtle differences in stride rate when running on a treadmill, and motivational factors! I guess treadmills are just more…

As usual this man talks complete sense.

if only more people would read this thread! it might cut down the number of people obsessed with listening to their heart rate monitor to determine an "accurate" reading for calorie burn.

mostly obvious but always nice to be reminded lol.

lol the really stupid thing is that you aren't even big looking. Rather, you're pretty tidy! So as well as being unnecessary, that twats comment wasn't even factually accurate lol.

outside of having scientists measure your oxygen intake in a lab it's very difficult to get a good idea of how much oxygen you've taken in. Heart rate isn't a good idea of oxygen intake either - someone with good cardiovascular fitness will have a bigger, healthier heart that can pump much more blood (and therefore oxygen)…

It's kinda funny how everyone assumes heart rate monitors have the edge in accuracy when it comes to predicting calories burned. Heart rate has only a very rough relationship with calories burned...depending on your fitness level your heart rate can vary wildly whilst you're performing the SAME amount of work (same amount…

you will certainly not burn more walking a mile than running a mile - when you run a mile you've done the same distance but in a quicker time ie. more work has bee n performed. More work requires more energy expended ie. calories burned, simple really!

please ignore any advice telling you to breath in through your nose. Unless you have a VERY big nose this will only suffocate you and has no benefits, aside from not getting bugs in your mouth on summer evenings.

Funny how people always insist HRM's are the most accurate...heart rate has very little to do with calories burned

I seriously question the credibility of some of those points - that point about not being able to eat more if you do a lot of cardio isn't true. The only point the article manages to make is that it takes a long time to burn stuff off...right, but IF you burn it off then you can eat more.

^^^^^^^^^^^ What he said! good man