New Forerunner 745 excessive active calories from steps

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Check your age, weight, height, sex, activity class and your heart rate zone settings and your recorded heart rate while taking those steps. One or more of those are probably off giving you the wrong calculations. 

Active calories aren't the same as activity calories, and I think that is part of the confusion. I've included the important parts to this topic below, for the full article please see Calorie Terminology.

• Active Calories
  • Active calorie numbers are what is burned throughout the day only while doing physical, non-sedentary, activity such as walking or working out. Garmin devices calculate active calories based on the activity level, type of activity, age, height, weight, gender, and heart rate (if available).
• Activity Calories
  • This is the total of active and resting calories that are calculated during a recorded activity on your device (from the moment that you start the timer for the activity to the moment you stop the timer). This information will not equal Active Calories in Garmin Connect.
• Resting Calories

  • Also known as Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), these are the calories that you are always burning, even when your body is in a sedentary state, such as sleeping or sitting down. Resting calories consist of the minimum calories required to support your body’s basic physiological needs, as well as your age, height, weight, and gender, plus an estimate of those calories required for activities like digestion and being mentally alert.

    Some Garmin watches which feature an optical heart rate sensor will also take into account heart rate and your VO2 Max estimate information to further provide a more accurate resting calorie measurement.

    Garmin Connect will take into account your Activity Class when calculating calories burned.

If you look under Garmin connect go to menu, go to activities you'll see steps listed there. It can be interpreted that steps would be enough to trigger active calories, even if you aren't using Move Iq or have an activity going. 

Thanks a lot for your kind reply. 

As I understand, in the absence of any recorded activity all my active calories will come just from steps?

Currently, what I am facing is that just household leisurely steps (1000 steps bag me around 200 calories) bag a lot of excessive calories which om sync with myfitnesspal just create a mess 

In the above example it can be seen that I have had no recorded activity for the day and all my active calories come just from relaxed leisurely steps taken at home and 2644 steps have given me 266 active calories whereas this should only give me around 100 active calories. 

Garmin-Brooks) Please advise what to do? Thanks

Faisal said:

Please advise what to do?

What exactly do you want to do and why?

As long as you use a watch with a heart rate monitor, the steps are completely irrelevant for the Calories calculation. And the number of type of activities you record is equally unimportant. The only factor that matters (aside from your personal data like the age, gender, weight, heght, and the Activity Class), is the heart rate and the HR Variability. So if your Calorie burn is high during the day, it means the watch measured high HR and/or low HRV throughout the day.

If the level of burned calories is not corresponding to your expectations, then verify the personal data in your User Profile - the age, gender, weight, heght, and especially make sure the Activity Class is set properly.

Thanks, I'll look at everything again.