I know that there must be dozens of similar post regarding this. I have searched far and wide.
But I just couldn't get this fixed.
I have a Garmin Fenix 8 bought last week.
I am 37yo. 5'6 and 195lbs.
My profile is in metrics and I have correctly input my weight and height.
In general, I have a Resting calories of 2141 in a day according to Garmin Connect.
Here are my HR and Zones:
maxHR = 183bpm
LTHR = 166bpm
Resting HR = 58 bpm
Based on BPM
Z5 = >152 bpm
Z4 = 136-152 bpm
Z3 = 119-135 bpm
Z2 = 102-118 bpm
Z1 = 85-101 bpm
On Feb 28, I burned a total of 3185 Active calories on top of my Resting calories.
I did inclined treadmill walking for 1hour, 4.38km and lost 911 calories. 155 avg bpm. Machine tells me I lost around 400 calories.
I did strength training for 23mins and lost 259 calories. 129 ave bpm
I went to the mall for the rest of the day. App gives me a total of 12km distance with 16k steps this day.
Minimum heart rate is 54bpm and max 169 bpm
3185 active calories + 2141 resting calories for a total of 5326 seems unbelievable..
On March 1, I burned a total of 1550 Active calories on top of my Resting calories. A total of 3691 calories
I almost did nothing this day. Except my regular daily activity of cooking, watching tv, a little bit of work in my seat for a couple of hours.
The app told me I took 5559 steps.
Minimum 56bpm and max 135bpm
On March 3, I burned 2122 Active calories on top of my Resting calories. A total of 4263 calories
I did inclined treadmill walking for 10mins. 0.73km and lost 147 calories. 149 ave bpm..
I did Muay Thai and kept my watch under the gloves. 3 mins per round and 1 min rest in between. With 5 rounds. Activity time is 29mins. Burned 374 calories. 146 ave bpm.
Minimum 57bpm and max 177 bpm perhaps during Muay Thai.
App gives me a total of 5.9km distance with 7285 steps this day.
I have mentioned that I have search far and wide. I did setup my profile correctly. I setup my maxHR (not sure if correctly.) And setup my zones (not sure if correct).
So I changed my maxHR to 170BPM. Reset the zones to default which is the same as the above mentioned zones..
Today, March 5, 7:12pm GMT+8 as of this writing. I burned 2201 Active calories and 1680 Resting. (Note that it is still not the end off the day.)
I did strength training for 37min and lost 448 calories. 125 ave bpm
I did Muay Thai and kept my watch under the gloves. 3 mins per round and 1 min rest in between. With 5 round. Activity time is 30mins. Lost 469 calories. Ave 156 bpm
Min 57 bpm and Max 183 bpm during muay thai
Already burned 3802 of Active and Resting calories .
This is my first Garmin watch. A smart watch that cost more than 1kUSD. Coming from a cheap Xiaomi and Samsung watch. They give me similar results and almost the same with treadmill machine.
While this expensive thing gives me almost 100% of over estimation. Hence this very long post.
What am I doing wrong here?