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Vivoactive 3 music calorie count.

Former Member over 5 years ago

heya. My garkin counts too high active calories. Usually while im at work. It could count me 2000 by 4pm easily. And its not that of an active job. It looks ok while im at home, on a lazy day i woulreach my 2000 or so. Walking, working out calories seem to be spot on, more or less. I counted my yesterdays basic burn + 2 walks and a work out and it came 1200 cal less than it showed . About a 1/of all burn. If im to eat those calories, i will roll like a barel. Myfitnespall thinks im a great dieter and a vrry active woman. Help.

0 hhasert over 5 years ago

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/fenix-6-series/230136/activity-class-and-effect-on-calories

Did you set the activity class, there are reports it innfluences the calorie count?

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=DJEru6ns626MZTh2kvUXZA&productID=571520&tab=topics

I assume you set your profile height, age and weigt correctly as well ?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to hhasert

Yes, i have my age,hight,weight in. I never came across activity class in settings before. Will have to search for it.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to hhasert

Ooh, ok. Fkund it. It was set to 2. Would walks with dogs count in exercise? We do about 5-8k per day. Its about 2h per day. I will maybe count it as 45 min exercise?

0 hhasert over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Well, excercise means the heartrate is above 80% of max I think (last 2 heart zones), so walking would never qualify since flat walks keep it at 60% or so max (for me max =164 and walking about 92-100).

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to hhasert

Mines average 100-120. If we jog, higher. I have them on a liead with one pulling all the timen good resistance training for my hips ;D but ok. I get that. Will not count that. I will set it for 6. Since doing 5x30min exercises per week atm.

0 hhasert over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Yeah, try if that gives a better score, I walk a flat track with activity score of 6 and it counts (male, 1.83, 84 Kg, 57 yrs) about 195 calories for 3 Km walking. For my crosstrainer it is close to what the machine says I have done. It never is nice enough to count me calories when sitting on my behind :-)