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Significant increase in calories burnt after 15.10 update

Hi all,

anyone noticed this too? Since the software update I burn significantly more calories, both over the whole day as well as in training.

My routine, training and lifestyle hasn't changed and I have had the Forerunner 935 for over 1.5 years now, so enough data to rely on.

Since the last update I easily burn 500 calries more per day. And I burn significantly more calries doing the same training routines.

This happened from 1 day to the next and I can only suspect it's crept in with the software update. It is very noticable.

When I train with HRM (the Tri version) I also notice that I seem to be holding very high heart rates quite easily in training, unlike before. Like I can go for long intervals at 160 to 170 when I should really be gasping for air if my HR were really that high.

Or alternatively, if I could hold such high rates with relative comfort I would be so fit I shouldn't be burning so many calories doing so! So either way it doesn't add up :)

I always thought that my 935 overcalculated in any case, maybe 10 to 15% too much, but now it just got silly. If I really burnt that much I'd be a skinny lightweight :)

I have gone from 3000 calries daily on average to 3500.

I have gone from 650 calories for a mixed hour long workout to 850. Usually I mix cardio with functional training and aim to keep HR at a fairly high rate throughout..

All of this overnight. At the same time my VO2 level (48) has remained stable and my training load is optimal as always.

Anyone noticed this too ?

Cheers

Chris

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0 tnblank77 over 4 years ago in reply to a_kuehne

No response yet.

0 Teroc over 4 years ago in reply to a_kuehne

When I contacted tech support, they said they've seen reports from quite a few users and were investigating. That's it. Keep reporting it!

0 6032473 over 4 years ago

Im having the opposite issue, by calories have dropped per day by about 500. my workouts are the same, the calories recorded are way lower and the active calories in the activity don't match up with the active calories in the daily calorie widget.

0 Teroc over 4 years ago in reply to genBerg

Possible (temporary) fix: after reading feedback from some users, I've set my Activity level down to 7 instead of 9. Now the steps calories are a lot more plausible and more in line to how it was before (~200kcal for 6000steps instead of 500+ after the update).

Activity calories are still pretty much the same.

0 tnblank77 over 4 years ago in reply to a_kuehne

They recently got back to me, there's an active investigation going on now for this issue.

0 dobssi over 4 years ago

I have this too. Far from ideal just started marathon training and relying on MyFitnessPal to help me lose 3kg.

0 dobssi over 4 years ago

I have this too. Far from ideal just started marathon training and relying on MyFitnessPal to help me lose 3kg.

0 jssands over 4 years ago in reply to 6032473

I called tech support about the issue where my total calories for the day in the calorie widget were lower than a single activity. The engineers looked at my account, saw it was true and opened a case. That was a week ago. I assume they will fix it.

0 akharuk over 4 years ago

Same for me after the recent update.
For me it looks like calories from activity tracker are added on top of calories from recorded activity.
When I ride my bike, I burnt let say 1500 cal for a 2.4h ride, but total burnt calories are about 2800 (numbers rounded and average).
And this top up does not relate to steps, because during my ride Garmin records very few hundreds of steps.

0 dobssi over 4 years ago in reply to genBerg

I don’t know if it’s related to activities. I had a rest day yesterday and walked maybe one hour plus normal movement around the house 13k steps overall. It gave me 636 calories which feels way too high for my level of cardio fitness.