Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below I was tidying my room and found my heart rate monitor. If I wore it to the gym would there be anyway to work out roughly how many cals I burned? If I got my average heart rate over the workout? I know these things are never completely accurate but is there a way to work it out roughly?
Heart Rate = Calories Burned
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Tblock1
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Here you go:
http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm
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You'll have to know your average heart rate though.
NJL52
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Not really. There's two types of metabolisms; anaerobic and aerobic. The first being without oxygen and the second being with oxygen. Your heart pumps at an increased rate to deal with an increased demand of oxygen.
When you are doing primarily anaerobic workouts, ie lifting weights, then you are using a drastically different amount of oxygen per calorie burned then you would if you had just jogged(aerobic) for the same amount of time.
Also, a large portion of calories burned by working out comes in the healing phase. Your body's metabolism and calorie usage drastically increases in order to heal the damage done to muscles from working out. So calories burned during an individual workout session is highly unreflective of the actual situation.
When you are doing primarily anaerobic workouts, ie lifting weights, then you are using a drastically different amount of oxygen per calorie burned then you would if you had just jogged(aerobic) for the same amount of time.
Also, a large portion of calories burned by working out comes in the healing phase. Your body's metabolism and calorie usage drastically increases in order to heal the damage done to muscles from working out. So calories burned during an individual workout session is highly unreflective of the actual situation.
Tblock1
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It gets pretty complex. Cardio is going to get your heart rate much higher than lifting and is easier to predict calories burned.
NJL52
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If you research the topic via google search etc I'm sure you can find estimates for calories burned while working out. But no heart beat moniter will give you an accurate representation of calories burned while working out.
Think of the variables. If you take a 30 second break between sets then your heart rate will be constantly high. If you take a 5 minute break between sets you will be pretty close to your resting heart rate. Given the same routine, you'd burn roughly the same amount of calories but the heart monitor would tell you a drastically different story.
Think of the variables. If you take a 30 second break between sets then your heart rate will be constantly high. If you take a 5 minute break between sets you will be pretty close to your resting heart rate. Given the same routine, you'd burn roughly the same amount of calories but the heart monitor would tell you a drastically different story.
lol when I say cardio I mean incline walking nothing drastic that will get my heart rate real high, I bet a high rep set of leg press would send my heart rate way higher than any incline walking haha
thats true I didnt think of it, still I think I will give it a try because it would make me more concious of it and make me want to keep my heart rate up, and I could still get an average of my post workout cardio to see if Im doing the right sort of intensity...
NJL52
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In it's purest, anything that motivates you and keeps you weary of your effort is good in the long run. If you like the feedback a heart rate monitor would give you, then by all means go for it. I was just delivering the facts =P
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