Timeline for Is it possible to measure calorie burn from heart rate alone?
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 16:12 | comment | added | JohnP♦ | @BernadetteEzakovich - I'm not sure which equation you were referring to, but I suspect you may be entering things incorrectly. If you want to ask it as a question, people could help you calculate the difference. We would just need to know all the details (age, weight, etc). | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 15:52 | comment | added | Bernadette Ezakovich | this calculation says I burn over 300 calories sitting at my computer for 2 hrs and less than 275 calories burned walking 2.5 miles an hr for an hr. Its crap. With this calculation I would burn nearly my entire calrie intake sitting at a desk. | |
| Feb 17, 2018 at 14:36 | answer | added | Hugh Perkins | timeline score: 7 | |
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| Feb 26, 2016 at 19:18 | comment | added | Richard Corfield | I'm seeing an opposite problem, though maybe related to Ivo's comment above mine. My heart rate watch doesn't know what exercise I'm doing other than "Other", so try rock climbing with it and it reports very low. 30 minutes quite intense autobelay and bouldering scored 57 Calories! Despite a heart rate averaging 150 peaking over 180. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 8:23 | answer | added | Lee | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 7:22 | answer | added | LAwrence | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 13:47 | vote | accept | Questioner | ||
| May 9, 2013 at 10:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackFitness/status/332449009845284864 | ||
| May 9, 2013 at 10:08 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | I think picking the type of exercise is mainly a variable that determines how calories scale with your heart rate. Certain exercises involve more muscles, with different ranges of motions and movement frequencies and thus work your muscles differently. So as soon as you tell the app you're doing a type of exercise, it'll have to assume that's what you're doing. I can't reliably determine whether you're actually doing it. So yes, they use your heart rate, but in a pretty naive way | |
| May 9, 2013 at 4:02 | comment | added | Questioner | @JohnP: Any measure of calorie burn is an approximation, but that doesn't change that it's worth having at least some measurement. No one's asking for perfection, just questioning what assumptions are made in the calculations. | |
| May 8, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | JohnP♦ | The answer with the formulae is excellent, however unless you are directly measuring via spirometry or other similar procedure, ANY formula is basically a guess. I would also hesitate to put too much reliance on heart rate based guesses since there is so much variability to heart rate. For example, say your normal exercising HR is 150, but today because you were tired you drank an energy drink and now your exercising HR is 180 due to the caffeine. Does that mean you're suddenly burning 20% more calories? (That answer is no, btw). | |
| May 8, 2013 at 11:27 | answer | added | Aytac | timeline score: 14 | |
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| May 8, 2013 at 9:38 | history | asked | Questioner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |