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?
> 
> 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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