jbs- I agree. That's why the HR monitor was great. You enter your ht, wt, age, gender, etc. It is specific for you. It also told me what zone I was in using my HR. I found out that my HR goes really high when I swim, but quickly comes down to a very healthy number :)
Because I'm a number nerd, I wrote down my calories/HR in a book. Here are some random entries from Jan-March when I got sick of writing it down!
2/19 swam 3:45 min burned 1400 (119-171)
2/22 swam 1:11 min burned 625 (139-181)
*interestingly on 2/24 I had a migraine and in 42 min I burned 378 but my HR was sky high (up to 209 with resting 148)
3/3 swam about 3:15 burned 1274 (over 3 practices) HR 129-172
3/5 swam 2:38 burned 885 HR 124-210 (at WCM Training Camp)
2/10 swam 26 min burned 165 HR 121-148 (I think I just swam ez)
Anyway, :blah:, but it's fun to see. It makes sense why I wasn't losing wt, if I wasn't even close to consuming enough calories.
jbs- I agree. That's why the HR monitor was great. You enter your ht, wt, age, gender, etc. It is specific for you. It also told me what zone I was in using my HR. I found out that my HR goes really high when I swim, but quickly comes down to a very healthy number :)
Because I'm a number nerd, I wrote down my calories/HR in a book. Here are some random entries from Jan-March when I got sick of writing it down!
2/19 swam 3:45 min burned 1400 (119-171)
2/22 swam 1:11 min burned 625 (139-181)
*interestingly on 2/24 I had a migraine and in 42 min I burned 378 but my HR was sky high (up to 209 with resting 148)
3/3 swam about 3:15 burned 1274 (over 3 practices) HR 129-172
3/5 swam 2:38 burned 885 HR 124-210 (at WCM Training Camp)
2/10 swam 26 min burned 165 HR 121-148 (I think I just swam ez)
Anyway, :blah:, but it's fun to see. It makes sense why I wasn't losing wt, if I wasn't even close to consuming enough calories.
