Calories burned - gamin vs runkeeper

What are you intending to use the calorie value for?

It's always going to be an inaccurate value - but can be useful as an ongoing comparison - as long as you pick one of the apps or websites to do your tracking that's the main thing.

As far as I know Garmin calculates calorie burn for exercise not including what you would burn as part of your BMR during the activity, that's included in your resting calories, so it should be more accurate, also if using a the heart rate function on the fenix 3 that uses "firstbeat tech".

Have a look at the below blurb...

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/11/how-calorie-measurement-works-on-garmin.html

All in, I'd say that your device reading is likely to be more accurate than runkeepers estimate. As noted they are all estimates and I was a wee bit disheartened when I was getting lower calorie burns with my Garmin Forerunner (average 75-85 cals per mile running hard and 60 per mile calories walking), but if the Garmin is closer to the actual burn, then I can, (with some confidence) trust it and eat back my calories burned to maintain my weight.

I had previously been eating back around 50-75% of exercise cals using strava's estimates and My fitness pal as after doing a bit of reading I had thought that it was overestimating. Now I'm eating back 100% by trusting Garmin and in both cases I have been maintaining my weight. This leads me to conclude (at least in my own experience that Garmin is giving me a more accurate estimate.

All the best and hope that makes some sense.

Graham.

Well, nevertheless, - my question was rather why Garmin is so different from everyone else...

Well, nevertheless, - my question was rather why Garmin is so different from everyone else...

My guess would be if Garmin is more accurate , they can sell as such and increase their customer base/profits...