Re: Corroborative evidence
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FWIW,
When I do my cardio i wear a heart monitor which, among other things, estimates the number of calories burned during the session. It takes into account weight, avg heart rate, and time. When I jog, I run an approx 3.5mi loop. Sometimes when it's hot or I'm hungover, I wind up jogging half and walking half. Sometimes I jog three min, walk three min, and repeat. At any rate (no pun intended), my total calories expended seem to be very similar whether I jog the whole distance or do some combination of walking and jogging.
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Your heart rate doesn't drop the second you stop jogging. If you are tired or it is hot out your recovery time is going to be slowed down and if you are really tired or overtrained it may not come down at all while you are moving. Those HRM are better off showing how much effort you expanded for a similar workout over time than in a strick count of calories. IE 2 months ago your normal route burned x calories, now it only burns x-y calories.
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