Spinning off the calories

[kajero]

it is possible that you've become a bit more efficient and your hr is lower for the same intensity of exercise so the monitor now reads fewer calories burned... or there could be a more simple explanation..... did you have to put your weight into the monitor?

My resting heart rate has decreased to 57 from around 68. I've also lost about 10 pounds. Everything is correct on the monitor as near as I can tell. I finally asked a trainer today. He said that I would burn less calories than someone working just as hard but weighed more and/or had a higher resting heart rate. Oh well. I guess in order to burn more calories I will have to:
1) Gain the weight back.
2) Quit Exercising so I can get my resting heart rate back up there
3) Push myself harder.

I think I will go for #3.

[greycoral]

lol yeah, option 3 looks best to me!

[Dogmama]

There have been recent studies showing that intervals lead to more fat loss (not muscle loss) even when calorie usage is the same. When the instructor is having people grind out a hill, I'll adjust the tension up & down so that I'm doing 30 second intervals. I keep the same pace as the class, so I'm not disruptive.

[kajero]

Our instructor is fantastic. He does interval training and all kinds of different stuff so I don't need to worry about anything.