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Active calories over double combined activity calories

1191507
over 1 year ago

Hello,

So the calories from my exercises are around 334 but Garmin connect is saying the active calories is over 700. Where is it getting this number? I did a cycling activity for about 20 min in the aerobic zone and a 30 min "tempo" treadmill activity. I searched the forums but people seem to report the opposite as a problem. Just wondering where this calculation is coming from and whether it's correct

Patrick

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    So all my profile information is correct but it doesn't explain where it's getting the additional calorie burn. If it was evenly spread across the day I'd assume I was just doing more activity but the number of calories spikes right after doing a workout to over double the calories burned during the workout

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 1191507
    1191507 said:
    If it was evenly spread across the day I'd assume I was just doing more activity but the number of calories spikes right after doing a workout to over double the calories burned during the workout

    Could you post some screenshots of the Calories screens before and after the workout, as well as the detailed stats of the activity, so that we can see whether there is really a problem or not?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    So it seems to have gone back and forth. I wear the hrm pro plus most of the day and I noticed the calories synced before I was done with my activity to 381 and then they went down to 299. Maybe what was happening was I wasn't letting everything sync so maybe this is a user error. I do have a naturally higher resting heart rate so I wonder if Garmin thinks I'm doing "activity" throughout the day which is making the calorie burn high. Is there a threshold for what it considers as activity?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 1191507

    Active Calories are not the Calories you burned during an activity. Active Calories are all Calories that you burn in excess of the Resting Metabolic Rate. In other words, whenever your heart rate is higher than the Resting HR, you burn Active Calories, regardless whether you record an activity or not.