Q: Apple Watch running accuracy
Curious to hear about other's early day experience with Apple Watch while running. Results for me, relative to what I've seen using other devices or apps, are a bit all over the place.
For example, for a 7 mile run in 60 minutes for a 41-yr old male, 6'0 185 lbs:
- Strava: ~1000-1050 calories burned, avg heart rate ~ 140-150bpm (outdoors)
- Life Fitness: ~1000 calories burned (on a treadmill)
- Nike+: ~ 900-950 calories burned (outdoors)
- Apple Watch: 690 calories burned, avg heart rate 190-210bpm (this is on a 'Run Outside' setting)
As an aside, I also tried it with Insanity for a 42-minute Plyo workout and only burned around 350 calories, which I could just about do walking (and break a much lighter sweat).
What are others seeing, and are there tricks to improve accuracy? Thanks.
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Posted on Apr 29, 2015 11:13 AM
I found these pages that may describe the resting vs active calories better than I did.:
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/articles/net-versus-gross-calorie-bur n.aspx
and
http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/resting-metabolic-rate-ca lculator.aspx
Posted on May 3, 2015 10:33 AM