Hi all, I've been using a Polar FT4 heart rate monitor (with chest strap) to calculate my daily gym burns. It gives a very different figure to MFP - much lower. The burns are still relatively high though - 720 cals used today for 90 total minutes of elliptical/stationary bike. I'm 157lbs, 48, female and 5 ft 2. I was…
I would like to get a reasonable estimation of the calories I burn in my cardio workouts. The cardio machines give one figure, my heart rate monitor (Polar FT4) a higher figure and MFP a higher one again. So for two hours cardio today I was told I'd worked off 800 by the machines, 960 by my HRM and a ridiculously big…
