Using my Polar FS1 Heart Rate Monitor to calculate calorie expenditure
My very basic (one button) Polar Heart Rate FS1 monitor I hope to accomplish two things in this post: I want to talk about my workout calorie burn and I want to review my Polar HR monitor. If you find this post interesting please leave me a comment below, and share it with others. When I met with my personal traine r the first time he told me that I should be wearing a HR monitor every workout and that we were aiming for a 500 cal/hr burn. Fortunately I had purchased the most basic model pictured above back in 2010 when I was pregnant. (I wore it during workouts to make sure that my heart rate stayed in a safe zone for me and baby.) That was really the most experience I have had with using a heart rate monitor to date. I have read about training in zones, but to be honest it just gets really confusing. It is about like having my wellness profile done, it is a lot of information that I am not sure how to use. I decided to follow Ethans advice and wear my monitor. That ...