HR monitors

[fitness4me]

I do cardio 4-5 days a week at a high intensity (treadmill 60-90 min. at 15% incline) but my weight does not budge. I do eat very healthy (no pasta, white bread, rice ect.) My cal. intake is usually no higher that 1100 cal. a day. Every one always says to use a heart rate monitor during my cardio exercise. I don't know if this would help me in losing weight or not. I also don't think I can handle wearing the strap around my chest. Are there any strapless heart rate monitors out there???? Should I invest in one of these???
I would like some opions on this since I get mixed reviews about it.

 

[allwildgirl]

You're not eating enough calories. 1100 calories a day isn't nearly enough to sustain you with that kind of activity.

You get used to the strap and barely even notice it's there.

 

[Imafitnessfreak]

Most likely, your body is in **starvation mode**. What that means is...basically, your body is saying "she doesn't feed me enough so I need to hold onto every calorie she gives me and store it as fat". When the body doesn't get enough calories, it begins to think that it needs to retain everything because it doesn't know when more food is coming. Several small meal through out the day teaches the body that food is coming in on a consistant basis so it is safe to burn the calories off.

Now, we are not saying you are starving yourself, we are saying that your body is most likely in this state, thus why you are not dropping weight.

I don't think a HRM is the solution, I'd add 200 calories a day (at first) and maybe more later, depending on how your body reacts. Too many calories too soon won't help...ease up those calories.

HRM are excellent training tools but I wouldn't recommend one unless you get one with a chest strap. The non strap ones are not capable of taking a constant reading. You have to basically stop what you are doing, or at least decrease your intensity to take a reading. The chest strap offers a constant reading, counting every beat, the entire workout. The strapless ones take a reading when you stop to do so...which will decrease your heart rate.

You get use to it, if your not already. It hits right where the exercise bra hits.

 

[megadoo]

I agree, you need to up your calorie intake a couple hundred. Trust me, it isn't a bad thing. YOur body will thank you for it!!
Good luck.

Maeghan AKA megadoo

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