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Major Calorie Difference when Entering by Clicking Stopwatch Icon vs Search Bar

‎05-05-2017 05:01 - edited ‎05-05-2017 05:03

‎05-05-2017 05:01 - edited ‎05-05-2017 05:03

Hi all, I posted this over in Dashboard but didn't get any answers.  Hopefully someone here can help.  I'm a new Fitbit user and still trying to figure out all the nuances.  I have an Alta HR and wanted to manually add a Yoga workout.  First, from the website, I entered 'Yoga' in the search bar in Log Activities and filled in the info and it gave me 231 calories.  Then I was curious to see what the difference was between doing it that way or instead by clicking the Stopwatch icon in Log Activities and filling in the info there where I instead was given 111 calories.  

 

Does one method use heart rate while the other uses steps?  Or a pre-calculated amount of calories?

 

Now, for my yoga workout last night, I entered it using the search bar and got 250 cals but entered my average heart rate into a heart rate calorie calculator and got 365.  That's quite a difference!  

 

What is the most accurate way to log calories?  I get that no method the average person has access to will be totally accurate but I'm looking for consistency.

 

Thanks!

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‎05-05-2017 08:49

‎05-05-2017 08:49

Use your tracker, it's personalized to you and tracks your high and low activities better.  Logging manually assumes the same effort over that same period of time.  1-200 calorie difference is still close (assuming you burn 2,000 in a day that's within 10% error)

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‎05-05-2017 08:59

In response to Mukluk4

‎05-05-2017 08:59

So by using the tracker do you mean use enter the exercise to the search bar and select the one that pops up instead of clicking the stopwatch to add it?  Because if I do that and log 25 minutes of KB it gives me 201 calories. But if I enter KB for 25 minutes at 4am (when I was sleeping) I still get 201 calories. I want it to be as accurate as it can, under the constraints of just being a wrist tracker, and not give me some generic pre-formulated number. 

 

Is there a way of logging non-step based exercises that uses heart rate?

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