Anyone use a Garmin for cycling?

jkoch6599
jkoch6599 Posts: 30 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
If you've used a Garmin with a HR monitor long term with MFP, how has your actual weight change compared to your projected weight change? I'm guessing Garmin overestimates calories burned, but I'm not sure to what extent. I get about 600 per hour for relatively hard mountain biking.

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  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    edited January 2015
    My projected weight change is pretty accurate if every day were like today. But they rarely are anymore.

    Calorie burn is the easy part for me... intake (which is the most important variable in weight change) is the problem.
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    The numbers I get from my Garmin devices are pretty close I would say, both for running and cycling. I find if I rely on those calorie burn numbers to tell me how much more I should eat in the day, my weight changes exactly how I think it should (over time of course).
  • jkoch6599
    jkoch6599 Posts: 30 Member
    glevinso wrote: »
    The numbers I get from my Garmin devices are pretty close I would say, both for running and cycling. I find if I rely on those calorie burn numbers to tell me how much more I should eat in the day, my weight changes exactly how I think it should (over time of course).

    Thanks, that's exactly what I was trying to get at.
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