Just received my Timex T5G971 Sports Personal Heart Rate Monitor Watch from Amazon today and boy am I surprised. I've been on the P90X program for about 50 days now.  I have already noticed results but not what I expected. While I do the workouts, I've been lacking on the food side of things.

To assist with the food tracking, I signed up for an account on The Daily Plate.  The site is easy to use and the food database is pretty good. For example, I was able to find the calorie listings for ethnic foods like Bulgogi and Chap Jae.

With food tracking in place, I wanted to get a better idea of how many calories I burn during my exercises. Sure, I could guesstimate, but I figured it's best to do it right with a heart rate monitor/calorie calculator. Tonight, I did the Core Synergistics workout.  Below is a video of someone doing it at 4x speed:

I was a happy camper when I burned roughly 849 calories (avg heart rate 108, peak 152) over 60 minutes. Not too shabby, in my opinion ;)  I'm curious to see how many calories I burn in the remainder of the workouts.  Game on!