HT204516: Calibrating your Apple Watch for improved Workout and Activity accuracy
Learn about Calibrating your Apple Watch for improved Workout and Activity accuracy
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Aug 30, 2015 5:01 PM in response to Ddcasiby John Galt,Here is a typical walk I recorded this afternoon (I usually ride a bike though):
Calories burned on a walk can vary greatly depending on your physical condition (age, height, weight), the degree of exertion expended and many other factors, but for a very approximate estimate use 100 calories per mile walked. That would be for a 170 lb person over level terrain. If you're lighter than that, it's less.
Your stride can vary a great deal also, but one mile is about 2000 steps. Shorter people would need to take more steps to walk one mile than taller people.
Given the above estimates you walked about 7.5 miles. That's about 750 calories.
If you walk really fast (more than about 5 mph) you might burn another 30% more calories. That would be a total of 975 calories.
(References http://walking.about.com/library/weekly/aa033097.htm)
I understand that these numbers are estimations, but this is a huge difference. ...
Yes there is. There is no conceivable way you or any able-bodied person could possibly burn 4,245 calories walking only a few miles over approximately level terrain.
What solutions can you recommend?
Get rid of your FitBit. It has been giving you horribly inaccurate results.
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Sep 6, 2015 2:37 PM in response to John Galtby Ddcasi,Hi John,
Thanks for the constructive feedback.
Through further investigation and just playing around with my Apple Watch and apps on the phone, I realized that the watch is actually counting burned calories fairly similarly to the fitbit I've been using. Although probably more accurate (I would have no clue) the Apple Watch shows that only a couple to a few hundred calories difference from the fitbit.
This makes me feel a little better because for a second there, I thought I was seriously in danger of being completely low on the activity scale for a normal human.
Here's what I found looking at the Activity App for the watch on my iPhone. Notice I was setting my Move goal way to high based off of what I was used to seeing on fitbit. However, the Move bar does not count "resting calories". I didn't do much "resting" on this day, but you can see with "resting calories" I did burn over 3000 calories for the day.
Thanks again
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Sep 7, 2015 12:13 PM in response to Ddcasiby John Galt,Thanks for the update. Your results are more or less consistent with my observations. "Resting calories" are a fairly significant part of the total daily burn.
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Sep 7, 2015 5:31 PM in response to Ddcasiby Lawrence Finch,Something else to keep in mind; the Fitbit calculates exertion based on steps, speed and weight. The Apple Watch uses heart rate relative to your resting heart rate to measure level of exertion. This is an overall more accurate measurement method.
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Nov 10, 2015 7:07 PM in response to Lawrence Finchby spraydust,HI lawrence.
I Have a polar strap and a brand new proform 4600 treadmill. Everything I have used so far, including my schoche wristband give me a calorie reading of 50% more than my Apple Watch.
also since OS 2 I burn much less calories per day.
Most of my workouts are inside. I know I burn 700 calories spinning. My Apple Watch will report 150 cals. Very disappointing.
