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Swimming/calories burned

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‎07-13-2018 19:20

‎07-13-2018 19:20

When swimming laps, I set my Versa to “swim”, it calculates calories burned. If I swim same amount of laps with my Versa set to “workout” the calories burned are double. Why?

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‎07-18-2018 07:38

‎07-18-2018 07:38

@Dreona Welcome! It's great to see you around. When you use an specific exercise mode it will help your Versa calculate your calories burned. When you use the workout mode your Versa doesn't know what you are doing, it just know that you are doing a physical activity and since it detects a lot of movement (your arms swinging while swimming) it may calculate more calories than normal. You can read more about it here.

 

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‎07-18-2018 07:38

‎07-18-2018 07:38

@Dreona Welcome! It's great to see you around. When you use an specific exercise mode it will help your Versa calculate your calories burned. When you use the workout mode your Versa doesn't know what you are doing, it just know that you are doing a physical activity and since it detects a lot of movement (your arms swinging while swimming) it may calculate more calories than normal. You can read more about it here.

 

Let me know how it goes!

Alvaro | Community Moderator

If a post helped you try voting and selecting it as a solution so other members benefit from it. Select it as Best Solution!

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