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Active calories data field?

abennett over 4 years ago

In an activity I would really like to see a data field for active calories (what I am burning beyond sedentary)

Cannot find such field

(widget?)

0 NickMN over 4 years ago

From first glance it appears that Calories Burned is 'Acitive Calories'

My check was from my recent first outdoor ride with my new Power Meter, with a Power Meter total watts over the duration is converted to kJoules and that is nearly exactly the amount of calories burned. In my ride I worked 1,799 kJ over almost 3hrs, it says my Calories burned is 1,794. One short fall I see is that if you are doing high intensity intervals or lots of work at threshold or higher... you will get after burn of calories from higher metabolism and recovery, causing more. I feel like some of that could be taken into account in the Active Calories. For running or other activities it doesn't have such a concrete and accurate power/calorie conversion and often it will give higher burn for higher heart rate.

I see this as making sense, since calories burned should be the calories you burned from the workout... not the workout and from living. Also in the Daily Summary of calorie data (output and input) it shows a different number for 'Active' and 'Resting' burn.