firmware 8.0 crazy calorie counts?

Former Member over 7 years ago

My 5x recently updated to 8.0, and now my calorie counts seem absolutely insane. Yesterday I went for a 30 mile ride 1:44, it said i burned 9074 calories...strava estimates 1350, and my powermeter says I produced 1264kj...

Also, resting calorie count is much higher. The watch estimated 10740 calories for my 6000 steps...anyone else having this issue? I have tried power cycling the watch....

0 mcalista over 7 years ago

For quite a few people, the recent update imported some incorrect HR metrics from Garmin Connect. You may want to check your HR metrics, including zones, resting HR, maxHR, and LTHR. Incorrect metrics can lead your watch to think you are working out much harder than you really are - eg. it thinks you are continually working out in zone 5. If this is the case, you need to correct it in GC (otherwise you will just import the same errors again at the next sync).

Incorrect body weight data can also lead to massive overestimation of calories burned, so that may be worth checking too.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

I don't have a recorded lactate threshold (and didn't before) however my max HR, base HR, and FTP for cycling are all the same....