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Calorie Burn BUG

DaveBrillhart
over 5 years ago

Hi Travis - Since you are with Garmin, and since the call handlers don't get the issue... I'm hoping maybe you understand the bug and might be able to open a ticket. Seems pretty obvious. Use actual activity calorie data when that data exists for a particular day, to add to the calorie accumulator in the Calorie view.

  • over 5 years ago

    Just wondering, but could the 5175 activity total calories include ~800 resting calories? (For BMR spread over the day.) I thought that would be odd as out of your daily 2000 resting calories that would be about 10 hours worth … but then I saw your ride was 9.5 hours, so maybe?

  • over 5 years ago in reply to markdotai

    Nope - the Garmin Device accurately reflects the exercise calorie burn, which corresponds to the well-known formula: 3.6 * PwrAvg * HoursPedaled.

    Here is a proof-point: If you did that same activity without a power meter, then Garmin would show an Activity calorie burn based on HR... and the Activity's calorie burn would match the Health Stat calorie burn. (But neither would be as accurate as if you used a power meter).

    So - it seems Garmin simply needs add the Activity data's calories to the Health Stat's accumulator.

    Alternatively - ignore power meter based calories and just show HR based estimates in the Activity. This is a worse solution, but at least the two views would be consistent (Activities and Health Stats).