Problem of calories measurement on my Instinct Tactical

Former Member over 4 years ago

Today i ran 5k which burned 437 of calories. Before i ran, the active calories in my device was 250+. After it has sync with my running activities, on my device, it appears only 550 of total active calories same goes to the Garmin Connect Apps. It never happen before, i noticed the problem since 2 days ago.

Can someone help me on what to do? What is the problem actually? If there is technical problem, i hope garmin will solve it immediately.

0 trux over 4 years ago

Today i ran 5k which burned 437 of calories. Before i ran, the active calories in my device was 250+. After it has sync with my running activities, on my device, it appears only 550 of total active calories same goes to the Garmin Connect Apps.

That sounds all right. From those 437 kcal, only one part are Active Calories, the rest is the RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate), so the ~300 Active kcal from the activity are perfectly credible.

You can look up your daily RMR on the Calories page of Garmin Connect, devide it by the number of minutes for the day (1440 minutes for the full day), and then multiply it by the duration of the Activity in minutes - that will show you the "pasive" part of the Calories burned during the Activity.