"Resting Calories" Question

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Would you mind answering the following questions, so I can best assist?

• Did you recently start seeing resting calories appear on your cycling activities?
• What device are you using to get heart rate data?
• Would you mind posting a screenshot of where you are seeing these?

I did just start noticing resting calories.  

I'm using some cheap Chinese made hrm, coopro or something. 

I've attached a screenshot or resting calories and time in zones. 

I've noticed lots of weird mileage and durations in the ride data.  I'm thinking it might have to do with doing multiple "workouts" per ride? Because doing a 100 mile ride I'll get weird numbers under "workout intervals". "Bike time" and "bike distance" are about half the ride (which would roughly be one of the "workouts"). So I'm thinking "resting" calories might be the time while I'm not doing a workout.

I had a Fenix watch but the band broke and it sunk to the bottom of the ocean so I only have an Edge 530 so there isn't any weird overlap with "physio trueup".

Thanks.

My 530 started showing resting calories too and I have never seen that before.  I did create a workout and some intervals but I have not used them yet.  Thank you for this thread because I thought it was just me not being attentive. 

In the beginning the calorie numbers (if you have a power meter) was just derived from the work done from the power data.

Not too long ago Garmin changed this so the calorie number was the calories derived from the power data plus some that account for the energy your body uses just existing.  If you wanted to know the calories just from the cycling you had to look at the kJ number.

Recently Garmin changed the calorie display in Connect again.  The total calories is still the calories derived form the power data plus the extra bit as before but they added the active calories (the calories from the power data) and the resting calories (the calories burned by just existing).  The difference between the total calories and the active calories is the resting calories.

They just made it easy to see the calories burned by the activity again, which is probably what most people want to see, while still keeping the total calories number.

Thanks for the information and the pictures. I was able to confirm that we have made a change in the way Connect displays the information coming from the Edge 530 as Wongataa mentioned and now it will include resting calories.

We have a description of what resting calories are HERE 

Hello,

Yeah, I read that before posting but wasn't sure how to interpret it in the realm of a cycling computer vs fitness tracker....

So it is basically separating out the bmr calories from the calories I actually burned via activity? So if I recorded an 60-minute long tempo effort or me sitting on the couch for 60-minutes "resting calories" on each activity should be the same?

I guess it makes sense to show that as two items... showing it as one item is fine to me too though... I guess as long as I know what I'm looking at it really doesn't matter to me.

Thanks for the replies!

Yes, that is correct! As long as the metrics that are needed for resting calories are not changed in your activity profile i.e. age, height, weight, and gender then that would be the same for any given 60min time period.

Sorry,  but one more question.  Does that mean if I compared the same workout from before the change (assuming everything else being equal) that if I just look at calories burned the workout after the change will show more burned calories? I only ask because there was a point somewhat recently (in the last year?) that when I looked at calories burned on the Edge - right after the workout - I was burning more... I had attributed it to heat/fitness/effort, but in reality it was probably this change? Just curious...

Thanks