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Double counting activity calories and total step calories

I have a Vivoactive 3 that I pair with an ANS chest strap HR monitor during my indoor at home workouts. I noticed today (embarrassingly because I've had this set up for two years) that my workout today recorded 520 and my total step count for the day was 3600ish steps for 400ish calories burned. When I look at the daily step breakdown, it looks like a significant number of those 3600 steps (possibly half) were from the workout. When I jump over to MyFitnessPal, it appears that I burned about 920 calories total which makes sense since it adds the activity calories burned with the daily steps calories burned. My concern is that it appears Garmin is counting the calories burned from steps taken during the workout into the calories recorded as burned from the chest strap HR monitor. I feel like this is doubling up and I'm not sure if Garmin Connect accounts for this or if there is a feature I need to turn off. Does anyone know if there is a solution?

0 Steve over 3 years ago

Your problem might be different, but I caught MFP doubling up because it was adding estimates from Google Fit, too. Garmin itself occasionally double counts but usually reconciles itself later.

0 5548668 over 3 years ago in reply to Steve

So would it be best to delete the daily step count from MFP and just try to stay under the daily calorie total knowing I'm underestimating my total calorie count for the day? What did you do to avoid possible double counting?

0 Steve over 3 years ago in reply to 5548668

I disconnected G'Fit from MFP. I don't need it because my Garmin watch (f6sP) tracks all the activity. Double counting by the watch itself is so rare I don't worry about it.