Calories for a manual activity

alberon said:

Why has this now stopped?

I am sorry, I do not know the answer, and I am not even aware the Calories were ever calculated at manually entered activities. I admit, I never use them. However, the Calories are on the all-day screen (as long as you used the watch and have the HR data), so you do not need to worry about the manual activity. Look into the daily stats instead.

I just wonder why you simply do not log the activity with your watch - not only Calories would be calculated, but they would be more accurate, since during a logged activity the HR sampling rate is continuous, while when you do not log any activity, the sampling rate is 15s, which negatively influences the accuracy of the Calories calculation, especially at activities like HIIT, floors climbing, interval training, sprints, games, martial art, or similar, where the HR changes a lot. 

Thanks for answering, actually it is my wife who does it this way for some reason, I use the watch for all my activities so don't have the problem. She is adamant that up until recently when she has added a manual activity the calories have been calculated and added automatically but something has changed since the app update. I am encouraging her to use her watch properly in future

I have the same problem since the update. I use a stationary bike and the calorie estimate was more realistic than my bike as my weight, age etc are a factor. Yesterday I biked 23 miles very fast over 188 minutes and apparently burned no calories where it used to be around 1000. I rely on this to help plan my calories, manage diabetes. This is since the update and I've just woke up to find my steps had not transfered to a compatable challenge app I've got going on. I also walked 4 miles yesterday. 

trux said:

you do not need to worry about the manual activity

Yes, actually, you do, since heart rate is useful gauge of calorie burn only for certain types of activity, like cardio, and even for that I'm not convinced that it's a one to one direct relation.

I routinely enter strength training as a manual activity, because Garmin's app for tracking and in-session planning is just frankly terrible, and its autodetect is even worse, and now my daily calorie burn is off. This is on top of the fact that apparently there's no sharing or counting manual activities (don't count toward badges, don't display as actual activities even just for your own use as last activity) because apparently only running and biking count as real exercise for Garmin, and those of us with a varied week can just suck it up I guess? 

Finally, even if the calorie tracking was wrong before, it was consistent, and I've used this data to help manage my bodyweight for literally years. How am I now meant to compare the previous data to the new ZERO calories burned for an activity that I do four days a week?

This is just a terrible, dismissive answer.

I may have found the answer, check if your weight is set in Connect, my wife just checked and it had reverted to zero so when she updated it calories burned are now logged for a manual exercise.

Thank you, same happened here, my weight was reset to 0 kg.

6962674 said:

Yes, actually, you do, since heart rate is useful gauge of calorie burn only for certain types of activity, like cardio, and even for that I'm not convinced that it's a one to one direct relation.

Calories are counted with the help of the HR data. The type of activity you choose is unimportant. The only difference is that when you record the activity, you have a more detailed HR data - the sensor is continuously on, while when you do not start any activity, the HR is sampled only once each 15s, hence averaging the HR, ignoring the peaks and downs. You also do not get any metrics like Training Effect, Training Load, LTHR / FTP, etc when not recording an activity.

Thank you very much, my weight had disappeared. I agree with previous comment, some activities just aren't as well supported. Thanks for the positivity, I'm off to do some more miles!