Garmin strength, "Free", editing weights...

I use the Garmin Strength activity to record free-weight strength workouts. It works pretty well, not perfect, but generally good.
After saving the activity you can then edit it in Garmin Connect. My question is....
- Does editing the weights used for each set make any difference to any of the metrics e.g. calories used? I think the answer is no. But if yes....
- If entering weight for dumbbells, i.e. one weight used in each hand, should you enter the weight of each or of both combined i.e. if using 5kg dumbbells should you enter 5kg or 10kg?
Thanks....

0 5516201 over 3 years ago

3 years later but I have the same question. Did you get any feedback about this?

0 occamsrazorben over 3 years ago in reply to 5516201

I didn't, and haven't used it for a long time... but would still be curious to know.

0 .ALIENST over 3 years ago

I use the Free strength activity quite often. I can't say for sure about calories but I'd assume editing the weight would not affect it since Garmin devices calculate active calories based on the activity level, type of activity, age, height, weight, gender, and heart rate (if available).

When using a 5kg dumbbell in each hand, I enter the combined weight of the dumbbells (10kg). If I'm using one dumbbell in both hands I use the weight of the dumbbell.

0 5516201 over 3 years ago in reply to .ALIENST

Hi! Actually I don't care much about calories, but I've seen it affects the training load statistics, so I was wondering what was the correct way, what is garmin official suggestion about this. I use your same logic.

0 .ALIENST over 3 years ago in reply to 5516201

I couldn't find any official recommendation on Garmin's site (didn't look too hard though) . When I first started using Strength app, I just used the dumbbell weight all the time. But looking at the "Total Volume" stat in the workout details page was way off. It was a choice of doubling the reps or doubling the weight. i.e. If I used a 10kg dumbbell in each hand, I either lifted 10kg 60 times or I lifted 20kg 30 times. Works out the same.