How accurate do you think Garmin vivofit is without HRM?

LotusCass
LotusCass Posts: 145 Member
edited November 19 in Fitness and Exercise
I wear the vivofit but don't use the HRM. I do an average of 12000 steps a day as well as a range of different exercises throughout the week. I was thinking of changing my calorie intake to 500 below what my vivofit says I burn for the day.

So today for example I've done 19000 steps in total which included 1 hr Zumba. In MFP I only logged 30 min Zumba as I only want to enter half the MFP calories as I know it usually overestimates. Vivofit say I've burned 2400 today in total. Do you think that would be quite accurate? I would therefore eat 1900 calories today.

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  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    For walking, it should be pretty accurate with out without a heart beat counter. For other stuff, not terribly accurate either way.
  • dewd2
    dewd2 Posts: 2,445 Member
    The only way to know for sure is to try it. No gadget or machine is going to get it 100% accurate. Eat 1900 calories for a couple weeks and see if you are losing as you should. Adjust up or down based on the results.
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