First off, I wanted to thank everyone for your comments in my running thread. Today I noticed that I didn't feel like dying until 1 minute into my last 2 minute run - so maybe someday I'm going to be able to run a *real* amount of time!
Now if anyone here has a heart rate monitor I would appreciate some input. One of my Xmas presents from my DH was a heart rate monitor. It has a strap that attaches around my chest and then you wear a watch that tells you heart rate, calories burned and all kinds of other things that I haven't had a chance to play with yet.
My treadmill tells me how many calories I have burned when I input my weight. My heart rate monitor also allows me to input my age, weight, sex and height and tells me how many calories I've burned. I know these things aren't an exact science so I knew they wouldn't match exactly. However, at the end of my workout, the treadmill said I burned 390 calories, and my heart rate monitor said 172!! Holy crap - what a huge difference! Thoughts?