Digifit Question

MinimizingMichelle
MinimizingMichelle Posts: 96 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
My digifit says I burned 375 today during my walk/jog. I lopped off 100 calories to be safe. Does anyone find their digifit accurate/inaccurate?

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  • Ant_the_old_keith_lemon
    Ant_the_old_keith_lemon Posts: 272 Member
    yeah!!

    i did a 2.2 hour ride the other day and ran digifit and polar beat in parrallel..

    digifit was 500 cals more optimisitic than the polar app..

    i prefer the digifit app but getting 1070 cals for 68 mins spinning sounds a little far fetched when others aorund are getting 7-800 using polar equipment.

    i have emailed support today as its starting to get on my nerves
  • Nikusz
    Nikusz Posts: 69 Member
    for me digifit (app version called spinning + zephyr HxM) seems about right, or at least in linewith calories calculations obtained by inputting average bpm into the calculators on http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx and http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/net-versus-gross-calorie-burn-conversion-calculator.aspx
  • Ant_the_old_keith_lemon
    Ant_the_old_keith_lemon Posts: 272 Member
    for me digifit (app version called spinning + zephyr HxM) seems about right, or at least in linewith calories calculations obtained by inputting average bpm into the calculators on http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx and http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/net-versus-gross-calorie-burn-conversion-calculator.aspx

    good reply! thanx
  • SJCon
    SJCon Posts: 224
    I know this is an old post but the issues is new to me.
    I love the Digifit App, it has great visibility seems to work well with partner apps but the DANG calories seem way out of line. I wear a BodyMedia and use a polar Bluetooth chest strap as well as a polar watch, all of those read within a few calories of each other in an exercise session but Digifit reads 40% higher or more. Yes I was wearing three chest straps at the same time. I have done several rounds of cardio testing in digifit to build my own personal zones and thought this might be the reason that is was different. I did the "fitness" test with polar beat and it came pretty close to the same VO2 max as Digifit found. I made the apps the same for VO2 and still got wild extreme differences in the calorie counts. Even the gym machines are close to the polar readings but way under the Digifit ones.

    Like I say I love this app but I cannot afford to use the bloated calorie count so others be aware of the issue. I sent them some feedback and they thought their calculations were accurate and the difference was in the ability of the Digifit app to "refine" the zones and calorie burn with cardio testing. I think if that were true than the BodyMedia would vary as well but is is real close to the Polar readings.
  • Ant_the_old_keith_lemon
    Ant_the_old_keith_lemon Posts: 272 Member
    To be fair calories are a pretty useless unit of measure anyway, if you are counting calories to the Nth degree there will always be a factor of error even the foodstuff may be more calorie rich than claimed.....

    however....40% is a high discrepancy!

    why not trim the V02 max number down manually so that the burn matches that of your other devices?

    i just use it for zone training, nerdish, geeky zone training :)

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