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Active calories and activity.... Am I crazy?

I could have sworn my last watch calculated activities into active calories. I had a good workout today and am ending with 861 calories burnt in activities and 456 active calories in connect.

Is this normal? I looked up my vivoactive HR stats and it showed 900 plus active calories some days after workouts.

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0 4002646 over 4 years ago

I had exactly the same issue

0 4002646 over 4 years ago

I had exactly the same issue

0 Waxonwaxoffmyson over 4 years ago in reply to 4002646

Glad im not crazy. i made a ticket with garmin support. we ill see.

0 rekre over 4 years ago

lots of us have the same issues but Garmin doesn't seem to care.

0 7866414 over 4 years ago

Same here I am coming from a Fitbit ionic which tracks more sedentary calories then the vivoactive 4

0 Waxonwaxoffmyson over 4 years ago

Garmins response...... The calculation of calories Is resting plus active calories. The watch will show 100 cal burn, but if 50 are resting it will only raise your active calories by 50. Although this makes alot if sense. I have gone back and calculated myself using this information, and it's still off, just not by the huge amount I thought.

+1 4002646 over 4 years ago in reply to Waxonwaxoffmyson

For me it does not make any sense at all.. see in the screenshot.. 531 calories burnt in total in an hour and 20 minutes activity (active+resting) but the total active throughout 21 hours of the day says 332.. it's literally a false data calculation.. seriously thinking about selling my watch..

0 Waxonwaxoffmyson over 4 years ago in reply to 4002646

I agree, yours is way, way off. Support acted funny on the phone, when I brought it up. I'm only assuming they know it's an issue. Hopefully fully correctable with a software patch.

0 4002646 over 4 years ago in reply to Waxonwaxoffmyson

Too late for that.. I have already lost my trust and confidence about this product.. never again. Working myself in the tech industry I know how severe this production issue they have. Would try other alternatives.