Posts by the3monkeys

I noticed something today, I will have to watch my next 2 days closely to see if there is a correlation. So here's the story. Yesterday was my Weight + Cardio day, 30 minutes weights followed by 30 minutes on treadmill. When I started the treadmill, I was at an elevated heart rate, 150-152 BPM. The walk ended up with a 154 avgHR and burning about 500 calories. Today was cardio only, 60 minutes on the treadmill. I started out below my target range and it took several minutes to get up to the minimum 126 BPM. I ended up with a 137avgHR and rarely got to my anaerobic threshold (144 BPM). Only 750 calories burned. Both treadmill sessions were pretty much at the same intensity (based on distance).

I should have had a higher avgHR and burned more calories (1000 in an hour based on the 500 in an hour yesterday)

Has anyone else noticed this? It makes a little sense. I believe that weight training is mostly anaerobic and tends to stretch its effects after the activity is completed. It would make me think that the residual anaerobic weight training is adding to the aerobic treadmill?

Original Post by maha-kisa:

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Did you go through Polar OwnIndex test? What was the VO2Max estimate it gave you? It's a very important factor in Polar's calculations. The higher it is, the more calories you burn.

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Also, is the resting HR of 90 set in Polar User Settings or did you just mention it because you know it? What's your Max HR according to Polar (also in User Settings)?

(1) No, I have not done the Polar OwnIndex test. I've heard of this but it is no mentioned in the guide (Polar F4) and I don't think that it has a setting for this. Though I would expect my VO2Max to be rather low. I'm a smoker in the process of quitting.

(2) I just mentioned this to give an idea of my current conditioning (not so good)