Calories Burned - Overstated

[stromdiddily]

@sartoric it’s the active calories that I’m not so sure on. Rest of the day looks close enough.

[sartoric]

@stromdiddily
I mean that 400 includes the active ones AND the metabolic calories burnt during the training.
So if Whoop measure only active ones , you’ll surely find differences

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

keep in mind that it is based on HR but differnt sport modes have different tuning

[Kurt68]

In my tests, I made the experience that Garmin and Suunto deliver almost identical values ​​and Polar significantly more. I don’t think they can really measure their calories exactly.

[isazi]

@Kurt68 no they can’t. I also heard that our bodies adapt to exercise to a point where total daily calories consumption is the same if we have an active lifestyle or not. Will link to sources later

[Brad_Olwin]

@stromdiddily I was hungry after my last race in March, the watch said I burned 3639 kcal so I believed it.

[isazi]

This is the material I was talking about. The page contains the podcast, plus links to articles. Very interesting (according to me).

[stromdiddily]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos oh OK. Thought it was based off of the body metrics. Don’t think there is a weights specific profile but perhaps I could create a running specific then play around w the default values

[Stefan Kersting]

@Brad_Olwin did a 9 hour backcountry trip and feeled pretty hungry after that, too. In General I think the calculation works for when seeing on my activity level and how many calories I eat

[Brad_Olwin]

@Stefan-Kersting said in Calories Burned - Overstated:

@Brad_Olwin did a 9 hour backcountry trip and feeled pretty hungry after that, too. In General I think the calculation works for when seeing on my activity level and how many calories I eat

Envious!!! Our snow is dangerous now and not deep enough but soon…I feel the same way after a long SkiMo