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Connect giving excessive calories based on steps

Recently Garmin connect has been giving me way too many calories based on my step count.
Today I registered around 1000 calories in actual activities, then connect is adding 2500 calories based on my 16000 step count.

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NikkiY323 over 9 years ago +2

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I have had the vivosmart for 8 months now and have only recently started experiencing this problem.
I appreciate what you are saying, but I'm perfectly capable of interpreting the data, and I've…
NikkiY323 over 9 years ago +1

You're failing to include your BMR cals in your numbers. You'll probably burn about 2000 cals/day even if you never get out of bed.

Nope there is also 1800 BMR calories! This is just for pure…
NikkiY323 over 9 years ago +1

I fail to see how I am misunderstanding the data.

The screenshots of my data from July 31 show total calories of 5841, with active calories (total calories - BMR calories) of 4050, which you can see on…

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0 4282899 over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

How on earth are you misunderstanding what he is trying to say Jim. I doubt he is reading the data wrong. That is far, far too many calories to be registered as active calories for 16000 steps.

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to 4282899

4282899 said:
That is far, far too many calories to be registered as active calories for 16000 steps.

The number of Calories burned during a walk has no relation to the number of steps (as long as your device has a working heart rate monitor). It is only based on your Heart Rate, average Resting Heart Rate, the Heart Rate Variability (for detecting the anaerobic threshold), and on the Resting Metabolic Rate (calculated with your weight, hegiht, gender, age, and Activity Class). So if the Calories burned during walk seam to be too high to you, check out all of those values. You can make some basic estimation using those values - have a look at this thread for the way it can be done.