Calorie Burn Disparity...Part 2

[112toGuru]

So just as I was thinking things are humming along with the run/walking I get this unusual reading on the HRM. It for the last two runs has calculated much lower calorie burns, like half of what it said before. Everything else is pretty much the same, it's just the calorie count seem very low for 30-40 minutes, especially compared to what I got before.

Did this ever happen to anybody? Any ideas on whether or not it's correct or what I could look at; the zones, avg HR & max HR look consistent. Any ideas?

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[handels]

Do you ever peek at the monitor while you are working out to see if the heart rate looks reasonable? Maybe take your pulse manually and make sure it is similar to what the monitor is saying in case it is actually broken.

Mine shows double zeros sometimes because it is old and abused...so it is possible to break them or maybe get a dud in the first place.

 

[112toGuru]

Do you ever peek at the monitor while you are working out to see if the heart rate looks reasonable? Maybe take your pulse manually and make sure it is similar to what the monitor is saying in case it is actually broken.

Mine shows double zeros sometimes because it is old and abused...so it is possible to break them or maybe get a dud in the first place.

Yes I do, and the graph it displays after is consistent with my other walk/runs, the other thing is the calorie burn is the same for Kangoo Jumping, that hasn't changed (the only aerobic thing I'm monitoring at the moment)

That's what is so weird, it seems to just be different during the run, and only recently, for the last two walk/runs. I did read about the kinds of numbers people get with different activities, just wondered if/why there would be that kind of change, or if anyone experienced this?

Maybe I'll have do some other things to see if it's just that or other activities too.

Thank You.

 

[RapidBreath]

Sometimes that means that the leads weren't really doing a good job of picking up your heart rate. You know what your excersion felt like, but the hrm might not get the whole picture. I had the same problem just before the battery died. There are two batteries, one in your chest strap and one in your watch. If either is low, you will get intermittent issues like the one you are experiencing.

 

[112toGuru]

Sometimes that means that the leads weren't really doing a good job of picking up your heart rate. You know what your excersion felt like, but the hrm might not get the whole picture. I had the same problem just before the battery died. There are two batteries, one in your chest strap and one in your watch. If either is low, you will get intermittent issues like the one you are experiencing.

Although this may be the case, it still makes me wonder why all the other data is recorded throughout without interruption? spm, total steps, distance, speed, HR, and averages, laps, it just seems odd that only one measurement would be affected (calories burned), no glitches in timing. I've only just started to look back at the data on the dates it changed. Still not quite sure about it.

Thank You