Is it very simple to understand how many calories are burned during a workout? I am thinking of getting one for when I workout and go on long walks
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It's HIGHLY inaccurate because you have to touch that metal rim every once in a while to get it to read your heart rate. This product is crap. Go for a Polar FT4. Yes you have to wear a chest strap, but its way more accurate and comparable in price. This product was a total waste of money.
1017840
It is very simple to use and understand and would be great for use on long walks as you have to stop to check your heart rate. You can try to check it while moving but it will only work about half the time, it works really well when you are standing still to check
134540
The length of stride is only a "guesstimation" related to your height. As posted in a previous note, this Smarthealth model is only a very general approximation of stride length/ hence calories burnt. It is also very important to really move your arms in a very, almost exagerated movement during the course of your walk. This is because it attatches to your arm, not your leg. Can you get a more accurate reading if you attatch it to your leg? I don't know. Anyone looking for more accurate readings may want to look into something differant. I don't see any type which attatches to your arm, as being very accurate. Hope this helped.
59515
For each run, it does calculate calories burned. But you cannot keep a running count of the calories.
1634337
Only if you wear the breast strap, which would be rather uncomfortable. I have the Basis now, which does that, but is not very good at measuring calorie consumption during activity. In any case, calorie count during sleep is rather uninteresting - the Basis shows I burned some 500 cal between midnight and 6:30 am and I would bet that this is within 10% of what it shows any other day, even after a hard workout when the actual consumption is higher. If you look for calorie count, I'd go with a Polar for workout and a Fitbit or similar with MyfitnessPal for the rest.
1946117
It DOES show calories burned. The two people below are wrong. After you completed the workout you get a summary of how long the work was, how long you were in the "zone" (set up by you), avg hr, max hr, calories burned. I had this watch for about 4 years now.
2265918
When i wore this device with the heart rate monitor and did crossfit, it said i did 68 calories for a 17 minute session, so i dont believe it does monitor calories very well unless your covering a distance. crossfit is a high intensity constantly varied workout
1268730
Not at all! Although most of my testing is on stationary bike (with considerable instrumentation) neither stationary nor real bike even gets the calories burned to budge. Even pushing 200+ Watts and sweating like a pig, nothing. Without footsteps it records nothing. Now, interestingly - after hard bike workout then I can get on treadmill at minimum speed and zero incline and it records medium intense activity, where I'm clearly loafing. It also records elliptical at much lower rate than actual expenditure. Basically I think it's a glorified pedometer only slightly sensitive to energy usage. And customer support doesn't even respond to any queries about these issues. Not at all! Although most of my testing is on stationary bike (with considerable instrumentation) neither stationary nor real bike even gets the calories burned to budge. Even pushing 200+ Watts and sweating like a pig, nothing. Without footsteps it records nothing. Now, interestingly - after hard bike workout then I can get on treadmill at minimum speed and zero incline and it records medium intense activity, where I'm clearly loafing. It also records elliptical at much lower rate than actual expenditure. Basically I think it's a glorified pedometer only slightly sensitive to energy usage.... » Read More Not at all! Although most of my testing is on stationary bike (with considerable instrumentation) neither stationary nor real bike even gets the calories burned to budge. Even pushing 200+ Watts and sweating like a pig, nothing. Without footsteps it records nothing. Now, interestingly - after hard bike workout then I can get on treadmill at minimum speed and zero incline and it records medium intense activity, where I'm clearly loafing. It also records elliptical at much lower rate than actual expenditure. Basically I think it's a glorified pedometer only slightly sensitive to energy usage. And customer support doesn't even respond to any queries about these issues. « Show Less
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Hi everybody, first time poster here. I've been using a sort of mapping system by Telenav. It is really useful to me because I can see other people's bike routes and the best part is calculating the calories I can burn. (see it here: http://maps.telenav.com/tnmap/). Just wondering if anybody has a calorie counter they recommend?
2181013
It does count calories burned. It also is a workout/run timer, counts steps taken and seems to be fairly accurate so long as you set it up correctly.
1537712
D. Rein, I am debating purchasing one of these. I've really gotten into workout dvds and I'm tracking my calories without much success on my scale. I am hoping one of these can help me adjust my workout/eating to reach my goals. Which do you think would be better for me? I work a desk job so most of my day is sedentary. I'm also continuously tired and am excited to have something that tracks my sleep. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
1443868
I'm sure you can wear it to get a measure of your calories burned throughout the day, but I believe this device is most accurate when used during your workouts. However there are other devices that can do this for you -- I recommend checking out the FitBit. :)
1268737
I attach it a few inches above the back of my knee when cycling and it's able to measure something. I can't say how accurate the burned calories are but it seems like it's close (comparing what it says to myfitnesspal's moderate cycling--my pace--for 45 minutes gives about the same numbers).It would be helpful if someone with a heart rate monitor compared its calories burned with those burned using the BodyMedia on the leg. I'm betting they won't be identical but will be pretty close.
1860226
I don't really watch the calorie count, I watch the time and try to do 20 min everyday. It works the whole body at once so you get a good workout in that 20 min.
157726
They don't explain it anywhere but apparently they factor in the resistance? If I crank up resistance into the yellow and go the same amount of time and roughly same pace as a lower resistance, it will say I went further. There is something way off about the estimated calories burnt too - not sure who is wrong but between 20 minutes of high resistance on this elliptical and a 20 minute fairly casual walk using fitness/step trackers like fitbit flex or even the run keeper app, the disparity on calories burnt is huge.
1876586
Yes. I noticed that my heart rate is higher when lifting weights than when doing cardio. It also has a workout feature, it's like a timer you start at the beginning of your workout, and it will only report the calories, steps, or distance for that time only. My goal is to burn more than 500 calories in a workout or just compleat 90-100 minute's. .. my average is 700 calories doing cardio and weight lifting
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In pounds?? No, but there is a conversion chart supplied with the instructions. Just do a little basic math and you're good. As for kCals, after the research I did, I found out there is no real difference between "kCalories" and "Calories" when it comes to weight loss. So just count whatever kCals you've burned as regular calories.
1211734
This one does distance, steps taken and calories. I always question how accurate the calories are on these little pedometers but then I question that on any exercise machines also. Let's face it, if we eat too much we know it.