HELP- which is correct

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joneyyoung

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I recently bought a TIMEX heart rate monitor. My problem is I am using 3 aerobic equipments, all of them measure heart rate as well as show the calories burned but they dont match the figures by my heart rate monitor.

Example


1. 25 minutes of Elliptical treadmill. Average heart rate of more then 85%. The treadmill shows the burn out calories of about 225 and the heart rate monitor shows the calorie burn out of more then 500 calories

2. 25 Minutes of stationery cycling. Average heart rate 80 %. The cycling monitor shows the calorie burn out of less then 200 Calories and the watch heart rate monitor shows more then 350 calories burnt

3. 20 minutes of Treadmill. Average heart rate of more then 75%. The treadmill monitor shows the burnout of more then 200 Calories and the watch shows nearly 400 calories burnt

Which is accurate?

After this during weight training session the total calories burn out is nearly 800 to 1000 calories as per the watch.
 
anything that shows how many cals burned is probably highly inaccruate!
as for the heart rate, how does your monitor measure it? Does it have this thing around your chest? If so, I'd listen to that. When I jog on the treadmil, the treadmil shows my heart rate, how it does that, I have no idea, since I'm not touching anything from it that can measure it...
 
Indeed it is a chest strap. and it matches perfectly with machine. That is heart rate shown on machine ( even without touching anything) and heart rate on the watch both are same..

the problem is calories counter
 
don't think about the calorie buned counters, they are all inaccurate. actually measuring how many calories your body burns is something that you need more than just a simple machine to do, as it will vary greatly from person to person.
 
The watch would be less accurate. How would it know anyway? i guess it would be on the relationship between hr and calories - which would be VERY inaccurate.
 
Don't worry so much about how many calories are burned during the actual exercise. As mentioned, most of these machines are wrong, anyway. What you really want to be concerned with is your metabolism being elevated for several hours after exercise.

For this, you need to be thinking about resistance training and/or interval cardio work. Steady pace cardio isn't very efficient for increasing your metabolism. Your stated intensity is pretty high, which will burn more calories, but interval work - working intensely for brief periods, backing down in intensity and then repeating several times, will burn more calories after you are done exdercising.

Unless you are training for some type of competition, you really don't need to spend all your time doing cardio. You should also do this after your weight session for best fat loss results.
 
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