When to turn off tracking exercise

[GD83]

Do you need to leave your Fitbit on for a few minutes after you’ve finished your workout? Would this give a more accurate calorie count? I’ve heard from people that you need to leave it on until your heart rate comes down because if you switch it straight off after running etc you could be missing out on calories burned. Is this true? 

[JohnnyRow]

It depends on what you want.  Either way, your calorie burn for the day is going to be the same.

Do you want to know calorie burn during the workout, or during workout plus recovery? Your choice.  Do you want to see the heart rate dropping included as part of exercise?  If so, you will get more calories included in the workout but the average heart rate will be lower.

[GD83]

Thanks for the reply! I suppose I was just wondering if you should leave it go for the recovery but the last thing I want is to over estimate calories if I should be stoping the tracker straight after I’ve finished working out. I’ve just noticed it can be slow to update calories when working out and jumps in 10s or so. I get you though, the daily calories will still include it even if I turn my tracker off before recovery. Thanks again 

[JohnnyRow]

As for calories jumping by 10, I think calorie burn updates just as the minute changes.  I can see that just walking around the house, the daily calorie burn jumping once a minute.  I don't know what the consequence is when you end a workout in the midst of a minute, if it eventually updates to workout to include a partial minute or not.