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scott wrote:
>> And then you have to wonder, how the hell can the heart monitor
>> determine how many calories you're burning just from your heart rate?
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> Presumably it just has some kind of lookup table or formula based on
> heart rate, age and weight (assuming you entered those values, I had to
> on mine), taken from actual experiments on humans.
I don't think mine has that data. Presumably it's just estimating based
on the population average or something then. It strikes me that even
with fairly accurate physical data, it would be a fairly vague estimate.
That reminds me - I need to go read the manual to find out how the hell
to turn off the beeping...
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