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Activites/Sports Overcalculate Calories?

I recently got my Venu2s, coming from Apple Watch series 6.

One thing i notice is that for the same sports, even though the HR is almost the same as AW6, the garmin calculates more calories burned than AW6.

For an example, i do a mixed cardio/Cardio activites - HR is almost similar but AW6 only calculate about 410 calories burned, meanwhile Garmin records at 499 calories!

Even for normal walking too as well.

The only sports that Garmin seems to undercalculate is swimming. Garmin - 370 calories, AW6 - 420 calories.

Why is it so? I checked all the data and personal profiles, they are the same and i didn't make mistakes with the metrics or whatever.

0 tess over 3 years ago

What did you set for your activity class?

0 1286013 over 3 years ago in reply to tess

Where do I set this?

0 MrDenis over 3 years ago

See I have the exact opposite issue, waaaaay under. That said, your numbers aren't that badly off. Keep in mind these devices only estimate calorie burn based off fancy algorithms: I don't even consider a 50-60 calorie difference. I know yours are higher than that but I would say expect a bit of a difference.