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vastly reduced calories burned

Former Member over 4 years ago

I have been using my Garmon watch to record walking distances to and from work, the same distance to and from for a few months. I am 5foot 9, 87kg, for a 50 minute walk, at 6.1-6.4 km/h until last week was giving me 330ish calories each way.

Then on Tuesday, my trip into work gave me 331, and my trip back (same distance/speed) gave me 158. My journey in this morning gave me 168??

I am very puzzled, and I have checked using an online tool, and it seems that it should be more around the 330 mark.

Anyone else finding similar problems?? Any idea how to fix?

0 trux over 4 years ago

Compare your heart rate graphs, the average Resting HR. and the HR stress level for given days, since only those are used for the calculation, not the distance or number of steps.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to trux

It seems there is a disparity in the average heart rate for the walks of approximately 20bpm, which is clearly a detection error, as I have certainly not got that much fitter doing the same walk in 2 days! It does explain the difference in calorie output though.

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

It seems there is a disparity in the average heart rate for the walks of approximately 20bpm

Do you wear the watch during the sleep? If not, then make sure you wear it at least during some prolonged time of deep rest, otherwise the watch has no chance to detect your correct Resting HR.