Endomondo Walking/Running Calorie Counts: Are they duplicative of Fitbit counts?

[ebogjonson]

I am using Endomondo to track my runs and walks. My question is: when the data for an Endomondo session is sent to Fitbit am I getting double credit on the calories burned? For example, today I took a walk that was logged in Endomondo. It sent that info to Fitbit, where an activity was logged as well as a calorie count. Is that calorie count being added to my total? If so that would mean that I would be getting 2x calories for a single walk, as Fitbit is also counting calories for that walk.

[SunsetRunner · Accepted solution]

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@ebogjonson wrote:

I am using Endomondo to track my runs and walks. My question is: when the data for an Endomondo session is sent to Fitbit am I getting double credit on the calories burned? For example, today I took a walk that was logged in Endomondo. It sent that info to Fitbit, where an activity was logged as well as a calorie count. Is that calorie count being added to my total? If so that would mean that I would be getting 2x calories for a single walk, as Fitbit is also counting calories for that walk.

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No it will not double count your calories as long as you input it correctly.  Here is a screen shot of the activity entry screen:

In order for it not to double count calories you need to correctly input the "start time" and "duration", distance is not necessary but if you know it go for it.

[ebogjonson]

Thanks! I also went in and deleted a endomondo submitted run and found that my calorie count did not change. 

[SunsetRunner]

Glad everything worked out, I suspect endomondo timestamps your activity when it syncs with Fitbit so it won't double count and it is just done on the backend so you never see it.  Good luck with your healthy lifestyle journey.

[Metina]

I have fit bit linked with endomondo and my fitness pal. I ran today using endomondo and was wearing the fitbit. I got double credit in BOTH my fitness pal and fitbit. Bummed.

[SunsetRunner]

That's because you can't have all three synced with each other or that will happen.  I would suggest setting it up as:

Fitbit <--> Endomondo

MyFitnessPal <--> Fitbit

That way info from Endomondo will sync with Fitbit and then the data from Fitbit (including Endomondo) will sycn with MFP.  Make sense?  When you have all three connected to each other what happens is Endomondo will sync with FItbit + MFP, then MFP will want to sync with Fitbit so each program is putting a copy of the same workout on Fitbit.

[Krilien]

Hi! 

I discovered the same thing today, but also that I get double up of km and calories. When I put it in manually, this will show, AND endemondo, AND the steps. Don't understand a thing? I have much more calories, steps and km then I should have..

[slysam]

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@Krilien wrote:

Hi! 

I discovered the same thing today, but also that I get double up of km and calories. When I put it in manually, this will show, AND endemondo, AND the steps. Don't understand a thing? I have much more calories, steps and km then I should have..

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If you have Endomondo synced to fitbit and manaully logged the activity--you double logged. If you are using a connected app to log an activity, then do not manually log the activity because it will be counted twice. You can delete the extra to correct your stats. I personally prefer not to log walking anyway. 

If you didn't manually log and were just using the "sleep/activity" timer. This is not double counting. The activity record the timer created just shows you what fitbit would ahve counted anyway. But you can delete the extra if you find it confusing. The activity record is just for your reference to see what fitbit had tracked in that time period.

[Krilien]

Thank you 🙂 I figured out yesterday that it didn't doublecount on fitbit, just endomondo that shows both. Anyway, thanks! 🙂

[cltien]

I have my endmondo account conected to fitbit too so I don't need to log activities manually. However most of time the activities are logged twice with exactly the same time staImp, today I een get three entries of the same activity. Up to now I can only remove the redundent ones manually.