I use Workout mode almost daily. I may do an indoor run or Zumba (Dance). Even though my Heart rate is consistently above 100 I never have more than 80% active calories vs total calories. I do not rest and so I cannot understand why active calories isn't 95%. My resting HR is 52 so I should be getting far more active calories burnt.
Can someone help me understand please?
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Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 10
You'll burn about 2000 cals a day sitting down doing nothing, so that's about 83 cals per hour. If you wanted your active cals to be 95% of your burn then you'd have to burn about 1570 active cals per hour.
Running, you'll burn about 100 cals per mile, so if you ran at 16 mph - that's faster than elite-class marathon pace - for an hour you probably hit your goal of your goal of 95% active calories.
Look it up online. There are sites that will calculate your daily passive burn based on sex, age and height.
I presume you continue breathing in your 8 hours sleep?
Thank you for your reply. But I don't think I expend that many total calories just doing nothing as far as I know.
I use most calories doing Spin or Aqua aerobics. But the percentage of Active calories to total calories used during those activities is still about 80%. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Thank you
I will do so
How can I calculate Active vs Total calories on my Apple Watch?
