Heart Rate Vs. Calories Burned

Most fitness equipment is adorned with a target heart-rate chart. But what does that really mean? There is a close relationship between heart rate and calorie burn, but they are also quite different in their own respects.

Heart Rate

Heart rate is the amount of beats your heart achieves per minute. Your can record your heart rate by using a heart monitor or locating your pulse by placing your middle and index finger gently on your carotid artery, in the neck under the chin.

Calorie Burn

Calorie burn is the amount of calories your body burns at a given time. Your can also record your calorie burn by using a heart monitor and an apex bodybugg or similar product.

Low-intensity Workouts

Low-Intensity workouts are workouts that increase your heart to 60 percent or less of your maximum heart rate. They are used for warm-up and cool-down, and are not intended to burn calories.

High-intensity Workouts

A high-intensity workout is a workout that pushes your heart rate up to or beyond 75 percent of its maximum. These workouts increase your heart rate and burn more calories.

Heart Rate vs. Calories Burned

The reality is that the activity that increases your heart rate the most will give you greatest amount of total calories burned.

References

• Apex Fitness
• ACE Fitness