Can Calorie Counter duplicate with LF Connect?

[burnie1874]

Quick question, if anyone knows the answer!

I've recently linked my fitbit to the LF Connect feature on the CV machines in my gym.

I set my watch to workout mode then did a run on the treadmil. I finished my run and then did more cardio work on the mats and boxes, then ended the workout mode on the watch.

The run was 19 minutes, the whole workout in total was 35.

When i synced my watch after, it shows the run in the workout summary and the amount of calories burned, it also shows the whole 35 minute workout and claories burned.

My quesiton is, does the watch count the calories twice because i have sycned it with LF Connect?  Is it counting the calories from the run and the whole 35 minute workout, even though that run was within the whole workout?

Hope this makes sense!

Moderator Edit: Updated Subject For Clarity.

[RobertoME]

Hello @burnie1874, nice to see you in the Fitbit Community. This is a great question, so let me step in to talk more about calories and exercise and how it works on your Dashboard.

You have to be extra careful if your tracker has SmartTrack, which is a feature that allows your tracker to read your exercise automatically creating an entry on your Dashboard. For more details about this feature take a look at this post.

In the scenario I depicted before, is possible your calories can duplicate your numbers, because there are two exercise logs of the same exercise. On the contrary if this is not the case, the activity from LF connect will be as any manual entry on your Dashboard. All steps, calories, and active minutes recorded by your tracker are overridden for the duration the exercise session by the activity's recorded values.

This ensures that your calories are not counted twice as long as the manually logged activity has the correct start time and duration and there are no duplicate exercise.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have additional questions.