Calories Burned by Heart Rate Calculator

This calculator turns the average heart rate your monitor recorded into an energy figure, using the Keytel equations published in the Journal of Sports Sciences in 2005. Enter sex, age, body weight, the average heart rate for the session and how long it lasted, and it returns total calories, calories a minute, the kilojoule figure, the part above resting metabolism and the average MET the effort works out to. A second tab uses the more accurate form of the equations if you have a measured VO2max. A heart rate is not effort, though, so heat, caffeine, illness and a hard session the day before all inflate the answer.

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The equations are fitted separately for men and women and the coefficients differ a great deal, so this is not a cosmetic choice.
The average your monitor reported for the session, not the peak. The equations were fitted on exercise heart rates, which is why the box starts at 90.
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Weight Unit
The equations are fitted separately for men and women and the coefficients differ a great deal, so this is not a cosmetic choice.
The average your monitor reported for the session, not the peak. The equations were fitted on exercise heart rates, which is why the box starts at 90.
A measured or estimated maximal oxygen uptake. Untrained adults sit roughly in the 25 to 40 range and trained endurance athletes well above 55. Use the other tab if you do not have a figure rather than guessing one.
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