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Manual log or automatic tracking of exercise

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‎02-20-2018 06:36

‎02-20-2018 06:36

Hi guys,

 

I just started using my Fitbit Blaze since yesterday, and I'm wondering about the exercise tracking...

For my main activities I do calisthenics (bodyweight training) and I noticed the following;

I tracked my workout this morning by putting the Fitbit on "workout" mode in exercise and let it estimate burned kcal based on heart rate and during of the trainng. It came up with 250 kcal for the full training.

However, when I log this training manually as "calisthenics" (selected in the app) for the time I was training (it them seems to take the heart rate from that period) it suddenly estimates kcal burned at 522!! Additionally, the tracked training now also changes to 488 kcal!

 

I'm rather confused on;

A. How to track my training, manually or based on putting the watch on exercise mode

B. Which of the kcal estimates is more accurate

 

If anybody wants to jump in on this, I would really appreciate it!! 🙂

Thanks,

Madelon

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‎02-20-2018 08:44

‎02-20-2018 08:44

I myself would go by what the watch says.

While weight training is hard it does not burn that many calories.

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Wendy | CA | Moto G6 Android

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‎02-20-2018 08:55

In response to WendyB

‎02-20-2018 08:55

I agree with @WendyB let the tracker decide. 

Manually logging a past event through the app is for when the tracker is unable to record the event itself, since the manual log over writes uhm ironing anything that the tracker has recorded. This means that the user has to basically guess at what parameters for the event must be put in. 

A manual entry does not look at the heart rate, since it is assumed the tracker was not being worn. 

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‎02-20-2018 09:20

In response to Rich_Laue

‎02-20-2018 09:20

Thanks to both of you for your replies!

@WendyB, just to be complete; calisthenics is something quite different from weight training 🙂

 

I will keep the tracker as a guideline then. Was just doubting since the values are very different from any guestimated calisthenics training. Guess I'm still just struggling a bit with the whole thing. Also my Fitbit calorie goals are quite different from MyFitnessPal goals (which I have been using for at least two years), so I'm just gonna go and see how everything lines up over the next few weeks.

 

Thanks again guys, and I look forward to figuring these kind of things out 🙂

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