I tested out my new Polar FT4 Heart Rate Monitor in the gym last night and I’m sooooo impressed with it! It never gave me a problem, detected my heart rate the entire time I was in the gym and even connected wirelessly to the cardio machines!!
I went to the gym last night and lifted lower body first. I was so curious to see which exercises made my heart rate increase the fastest. The verdict was pretty obvious, squats and lunges used the most energy.
After working out legs, I ran on the treadmill for a little over a mile. Here are my stats. I can’t believe I burned almost 600 calories!!!!
avg heart rate = 139
max heart rate = 183
It was sooooo cool to me to see how many calories I really burn on a trip to the gym!!!
One of the coolest things that I found out WHILE on the treadmill was that my polar heart rate monitor was automatically detected by the treadmill. The whole time I was running, my heart rate displayed on the treadmill screen (instead of having to hold those gross silver sensors to get it). This gave a more accurate display of calories burned on the machine. SOOOO IMPRESSED!!!! That was just a bonus to my excitement of how awesome this watch worked! Can’t wait to use it again!
As for eats yesterday, I started with scrambled eggs, cheese and ham from our cafe downstairs at work. It kept me full until lunch so I was very pleased with that! For lunch I grabbed some stuff from Meijer to eat because that’s where I was picking up my new heart rate monitor. I found a lunchables sandwich and a fruit snack pack. Both were very good!
I also had a bottle of my new favorite drink!!! Peach Tea Diet Snapple!! YUMMMMMY.
For dinner I made some Smart Ones pizza bites. After the gym I had a protein shake.
AWESOME DAY 🙂
It’s almost Friday too!!! I’ll do my post soon about my SURVIVOR competition I’m doing this weekend!!! I’m getting nervous!!!
Glad you’re having fun with your heart rate monitor!!
It’s so funny how much I’ve changed. 2 years ago I would have never been THIS excited about something that tells me how fast my heart is beating!! haha.
600 cals! Thats insane. Seems pretty cool!
Really stupid question BUT…I just got a Polar FT4 heart rate monitor–my first monitor ever. Does the little black box thingy (called a connector) go against your body or facing out??
THANK YOU!!
The words on the front of the black box will be facing away from you. The box will go against your body. Hope that helps. Good luck.
I just bought the Polar heart rate monitor! I’m glad it is a good one:)
what should your upper and lower limits be? (do you set these on your own or does it do it for you
I kept mine to how it was set when I got it. I know there are some websites that will help you figure out your target heart rate based on your age, weight and resting heart rate.