Post ride hunger

[Tuckervill]

Please be careful if you're using a HRM to estimate calories burned. I ride with a power meter and it gives me energy expended in kilojoules. This equates fairly equally to calories. I can tell you that my HRM always reads about 25% higher than the power meter does in terms of calories burned. If you're trying to lose or maintain weight, I wouldn't trust a HRM...I believe the numbers read high.

Yeah, I read about all of that before I bought one. Every other source (I don't have a power meter) of information on calories burned lines up pretty much with what my HRM gives me. Even though I collect those numbers, I always estimate high on my intake and low on my outgo, and I've managed to lose 48 lbs.

eta: The point is still valid, even if my numbers are 25% low.

Karen