I did a 300cal fit bit work out and it’s not logging properly

[Amber9713]

Hey everyone, 

I did a 300kcal 15 minute hiit work our from the community page and after it allowed me to log it automatically. It showed up that I burned 43 calories and not 300 despite me completing the entire exercise? 

what happened here? How do I fix this?

amber 

[Heybales]

First - Proclaimed calorie burns on any workouts are a huge estimate, and exaggerated. How does a Spin class poster know you, at your weight and fitness level, are going to burn over 1000 calories in a 45 min class? They have no idea.

Second - Calorie burns from the fad HIIT workouts are exaggerated. The mere act of going all out hard for some brief time requires a rest to do the next interval. While your HR may remain high for oxygen recovery the workload is minimal in comparison as is the calorie burn - the average being less than if you just did a workout as hard as you could for the same time. HIIT is for a purpose in aerobic conditioning, and it's not high calorie burns.

Third - your HR may have been misread because it went over a certain level, and so the avgHR appeared low. Or it actually cut out reading the HR at all when it went high.

Did you look at your daily graph and the stats for the workout - or only the calorie burn.

Fourth - and 1200 cal/hr workout (even if done for 15 min) would have to be so intense it is highly doubtful any but the most fit could approach anywhere near that rate of burn.

Fifth - 43 cal is wrong too.

Are you sure the logging grabbed the right time stamp for the activity record?

You can find it and correct it if that was the problem. Maybe it got am when you did it in pm, or off 2 hrs or something and got normal activity time.

[emili]

I agree with @Heybales . Unless you fit the exact demographic of the person they estimated the calories on and work at that exact level of effort, your calorie burn will be different. I also don't think 43 is right unless you have a tracker without HR that measured steps and the activity was not a high step one. All that aside, I know you want to get "credit" for the effort- I get so mad when things don't capture properly- but you did something good for yourself and that is what counts