Snowmobilers and heart rate

[Ssimons2]

If calories burned are calculated by heart rate and not steps, it should be fine that my steps rank in at 25000 from snowmobiling right ? Would the vibration also throw my heart rate off that much? It looks like it stayed in the fat burning zone for all but 13 minutes of cardio during my 100 mile ride today. 

[Julia_G]

Hi, @Ssimons2 , I am not clear from youe post whether you feel yiur .fitbit calculated too many ir too few calories?  The calorie burn should be calculated from the information you set in your profile (sex, age. height, weight) combined with the heart rate dected for any activity.

[Ssimons2]

I'm wondering if the vibrations made my heart rate slightly higher than  actual . It certainly affected my steps and stair climb numbers 

[Julia_G]

I am not surprised that it affected yiur steps, but I would not expect that it woukd have significant affect on your heartrate

[natefrog255]

I'm kind of curious of the same thing.  I have the Versa 2 which has the HR monitor and assume the calories burned is based more off of that than total steps.  I also had a ton more steps from the vibrations of the snowmobile, which I know going in, but I also show quite a few calories burned.  I know even though you're sitting that snowmobiling does burn calories and is a good core workout, but I'm not sure if 200-300 calories burned/riding hours is a little generous.  Feels like it may be, but I guess maybe driving is more of a workout than a person figures.