Calorie Burn Count

[TNCOWBOY]

Hi. New to the forum.

My question concerns how to be as accurate as reasonable when recording calorie burn from cardio. I am 50 lbs overweight with probably 35% BF. I bought a very good chest heart monitor and had my V/O max measured so I feel pretty good about the accuracy of the calories it says I am burning.

My question though is lets say I do 30 minutes of HIIT and it says I burned 350 calories in that session. Wouldn't I be burning some calories at rest over that period anyway? Shouldn't that number be subtracted to get the net burn?

I realize this may be picking nits but at my size and the calorie restriction I am having to employ, every calorie counts it seems to me.

 

[Jenner]

Well, I used to worry about every macro, every calorie burned etc...

What I have found is to just relax and train hard and do HIIT for cardio (like you are doing) for best fat loss results. If you do this, you will lose the weight (diet in check of course) so for me, it's not worth the stress to be so obsessive with it. You might end up burning out or giving up as I have seen many do.

 

[Arslan230]

You should increase your food. It is best tip for your health.