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I believe Connect is adding walking calories from steps counted while running....

This is based on the fact that every time I do a run with my 920XT, a bunch of extra calories get sent to MFP on top of the run activity via the Garmin Calorie Adjustment.

Looking at the detailed calorie breakdowns on Garmin Connect seems to back this up, as a bunch of rogue walking calories seem to be created and these are pretty much proportional to the number of steps for the day, some of which were recorded while running.

I think this links to the issue I reported a few weeks ago, that Garmin are supposedly working on. Some links....

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?189131-Inconsistency-with-Active-Calories-on-the-Reports-section

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?195187-Garmin-VivoSmart-Active-Calories-vs-MyFitnessPal-Exercise-Calories-Discrepancy

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?188882-Mismatch-between-calories-on-Garmin-Connect-and-MFP-adjustment

Any thoughts?

Paul

0 dd_fnx over 10 years ago

I found this to be the same with my vivosmart. I've been searching many threads and I've finally found one that has the same issue.

I'm a shift worker in an office job and I don't have many steps throughout the day when I have a night shift. The only real activity I had for that day was a 5k run before my night shift which burned about 600 calories with my heart rate monitor, other than that just walking around the house and the office, (very short distances).

Apparently at the end of the day I burned an extra 904 calories and walked the equivalent of 10km. So a total of 1504 cals for the day!

Seems like the activity steps were being added to daily steps, and the total distance to make up that 904 cals. It pretty much screws up your calorie intake if you go with MFP tells you based on Garmins excessive calorie burn.

So far in MFP I just delete the Garmin Connect Calorie Adjustment and go by my activity calories. If I do walk excessively in a day (as the calorie adjustment), I guess I do lose those calories and write off any few extra steps I take, otherwise I may just try setting my "longer" walks as an activity and see if that helps.

0 dobssi over 10 years ago

I have been getting around this with the 920 by disabling activity tracking just before a run and enabling it again straight after.

However today this has caused an extra 795 steps calories to be randomly added to my day. It's an absolute shambles that they make a fantastic piece of hardware like the 920 and then undermine the whole thing though bugs in their software side. I know bugs are inevitable but the sense is there is no urgency to fix these issues and barely even an acknowledgement that they exist.

In my company where we make computer games of course we have to deal with bugs but unlike Garmin we constantly man the forums and keep the community updated. I am inherently suspicious of any company that fails to do this.

0 dd_fnx over 10 years ago

I sadly feel the same way. Such fantastic pieces of hardware with so much potential. Well designed and catered to your average to elite athlete who benefit largely on data, but if the data is no good, it negates the usefulness of the device.

In any case, I do hope garmin does step up their game. For now, I can deal with their shortcomings, but without any fixes it may prevent me from buying their future products as the competition in wearables is now getting pretty stiff.