It’s a consistency thing for me. I’m less concerned about the number, and more concerned about having a good daily average. That and getting my steps in.
Mainly because… it’s too impractical to wear a chest strap heart rate monitor for daily activity lol.
So at least I can see a decent average daily amount, and that keeps me consistent.
I love my garmin. They’re close. It’s still a great tool for people, especially individuals who stay consistent with training because they have a smartwatch.
Are they way less accurate than the average person is calculating themselves? I always figured it was a rough estimate since its hard to figure out for each individual anyway
Honestly I use a Fitbit to track my sleep, and my estimated amount of steps. It helps keep me accountable. I never pay attention to the calories burned.
So what’s a good idea then to know your calories burned? Just your weight loss at the end of the week? Because that doesn’t give me a idea either. Currently doing right around 2000 calorie day diet, lost 50 pounds already but I need just 10 more, they seem the hardest. According to my Apple Watch I burn averagely over 3000 calories every day.
I still like em because every study I’ve seen has shown them UNDER reporting your calories rather than OVER reporting……which means if you stay under what it says, you’ll actually be in a bigger deficit than you even thought, or if you burn a target goal, you’ll actually burn more than you thought
I always thought these are a complete load of BS.. it’s impossible to calculate watts of energy used for a given exercise without knowing more metrics, you need to know the workload to even come close to accuracy.. heart rate and movement alone can’t calculate workload
The only device I think might be close is whoop. If I go for a 30 minute job and 1 hour lift I burn usually around 2500 cals a day, but on my apple watch it says I’m burning like 3600. Now I’m tracking macros and I’m trying to diet so I’m eating between 2000-2200 a day and I’m slowly losing weight. Whoops estimate makes sense as that puts me in a deficit of 300-500 cals which would be about a .5 to 1 pound a week. If I was burning 3600 like apple says I would be in a deficit of about 1500 a day therefore losing about 1lb every other day and seeing that’s not the case It’s so off
what you failed to say was that the watches were not OVER estimating but, UNDER estimating so even if the number are inaccurate you can always bet you’ve done more than it says.
The only way a fitness tracker can accurately measure heart rate and cals burned is by also measuring oxygen it must be worn over the chest. All these devices are gimmicks and very inaccurate. People are sheep and automatically think expensive equals accurate. You Apple Watch/fit bit etc. are way off and you’re fooling your self if you believe them
I use my Garmin to count my steps, I aim for 10,000 every day and currently I’m on 167 days straight over 10,000. Aiming for 365. Never count my calories burned anyway, only worry about your calories in
On the same day my Apple Watch said I burned a total of 4,800 and my whoop said 3,600 I maintain somewhere in the middle my average on AW is 4,300 and whoop is 2,700 I maintain on 3,500
Bro, how do I find my maintenance calories then? All the methods available are inaccurate. I’ve outgrown the online calculators and my Fitbit is estimating 2900 per day but my feeling is more like 2400 based on my body’s hunger signalling
they UNDER reported so thats a good thing
It’s a consistency thing for me. I’m less concerned about the number, and more concerned about having a good daily average. That and getting my steps in.
Mainly because… it’s too impractical to wear a chest strap heart rate monitor for daily activity lol.
So at least I can see a decent average daily amount, and that keeps me consistent.
I love my garmin. They’re close. It’s still a great tool for people, especially individuals who stay consistent with training because they have a smartwatch.
“ proceeds to talk about studies saying they don’t work while also not including said studies. “ what a genius
Fitbit tracks me as riding a bike when driving a semi😅😅😅
Who even uses the calories burned, I just use mine for running, and maybe sleep
Zubimendi teniendo a Kimmich por un precio similar… aunque la edad tb hay que considerarlo.
Close enough is good enough
I think Polar H10 burnt calories counting is accurate.
who cares
Thanks for being real!!❤❤
Are they way less accurate than the average person is calculating themselves? I always figured it was a rough estimate since its hard to figure out for each individual anyway
Bro just saved me 500$ that I’m about to buy Apple watch
Thank youu
Chest strap for the win!!
Honestly I use a Fitbit to track my sleep, and my estimated amount of steps. It helps keep me accountable. I never pay attention to the calories burned.
So which is the best?
So what’s the best one? You didn’t answer
So what’s a good idea then to know your calories burned? Just your weight loss at the end of the week? Because that doesn’t give me a idea either. Currently doing right around 2000 calorie day diet, lost 50 pounds already but I need just 10 more, they seem the hardest. According to my Apple Watch I burn averagely over 3000 calories every day.
I don’t really care too much about my Apple Watch goals because I already knew they weren’t that accurate
clickbait video, we love those!
I still like em because every study I’ve seen has shown them UNDER reporting your calories rather than OVER reporting……which means if you stay under what it says, you’ll actually be in a bigger deficit than you even thought, or if you burn a target goal, you’ll actually burn more than you thought
In that case, i will save some buck by continuing to put my samsung phone on my waist band while running
I always thought these are a complete load of BS.. it’s impossible to calculate watts of energy used for a given exercise without knowing more metrics, you need to know the workload to even come close to accuracy.. heart rate and movement alone can’t calculate workload
The only device I think might be close is whoop. If I go for a 30 minute job and 1 hour lift I burn usually around 2500 cals a day, but on my apple watch it says I’m burning like 3600. Now I’m tracking macros and I’m trying to diet so I’m eating between 2000-2200 a day and I’m slowly losing weight. Whoops estimate makes sense as that puts me in a deficit of 300-500 cals which would be about a .5 to 1 pound a week. If I was burning 3600 like apple says I would be in a deficit of about 1500 a day therefore losing about 1lb every other day and seeing that’s not the case It’s so off
Polar begs to disagree
Dam man and here I was about to buy one 😂
I use Apple Watch data, plus MyNetDiary intake, weight scale and chat gpt todo my math.
Apple Watch helps
Do you have any recommendations for how to track calories burned without a fitness band?
Thank you Christoph Waltzes
Definitely not accurate 🤣
i just like the distance/step tracker as well as movement reminders
Could you please share the reference.
Who asked
Could you use a smartwatch and manually remove 30% when adding it into your fitness app, or is it just too random to do that?
what you failed to say was that the watches were not OVER estimating but, UNDER estimating so even if the number are inaccurate you can always bet you’ve done more than it says.
The only way a fitness tracker can accurately measure heart rate and cals burned is by also measuring oxygen it must be worn over the chest. All these devices are gimmicks and very inaccurate. People are sheep and automatically think expensive equals accurate. You Apple Watch/fit bit etc. are way off and you’re fooling your self if you believe them
I had a Fitbit, it was a joke! Just getting out of bed in the morning it would count as 300 steps. 😂😂
It is true but all SmartWatches other than apple were under reporting in those studies
I use my Garmin to count my steps, I aim for 10,000 every day and currently I’m on 167 days straight over 10,000. Aiming for 365. Never count my calories burned anyway, only worry about your calories in
As long as they underestimate, im good!
Ste, you blatantly misquoted Ronaldo there
Okay.
What about Garmin?
Sounds like Brüno
😂
So I didn’t burn 700 calories working out the other day 😂😂
On the same day my Apple Watch said I burned a total of 4,800 and my whoop said 3,600 I maintain somewhere in the middle my average on AW is 4,300 and whoop is 2,700 I maintain on 3,500
Bro, how do I find my maintenance calories then? All the methods available are inaccurate. I’ve outgrown the online calculators and my Fitbit is estimating 2900 per day but my feeling is more like 2400 based on my body’s hunger signalling
THANKYOU SAVED ME $100