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In my anecdotal experience my fitness apps generally underestimates calories burned while exercise equipment generally overestimates it. Like how my Garmin watc
by jeltz 5y ago
In my anecdotal experience my fitness apps generally underestimates calories burned while exercise equipment generally overestimates it. Like how my Garmin watch told me yesterday that I burned 300 kcal from running 10 km which is nonsense. It should be around 600 kcal if you do a rough estimation.
- neuralRiot 5y agoThe problem with calorie counting and fitness trackers is that they assume all bodies are equally efficient, a calorie is a calorie but a person is not a person. It’s like driving for 2 hours and trying to estimate how much gas to fill for the next 2 hours without overflowing the tank, all this based on the mpg of a standard car.