Should I Separately Enter Workout While Wearing Garmin Watch?

anderska1011
anderska1011 Posts: 10 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi all,

I wear a Garmin all day to track my steps, which also adds calories since it's linked to MFP. I just started working out beyond walking yesterday, and I continued to wear my Garmin while doing so. Should I enter in a workout separately, or assume that the calories tracked passively from my watch are close enough? I don't want to accidentally double count exercise, but I also don't want to shortchange myself.

I can also just take off the watch while working out and enter the exercise separately. Would that be the wiser course of action?

Thanks so much!

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  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Start an activity on your Garmin, to record your workout. Let everything sync as normal.
  • anderska1011
    anderska1011 Posts: 10 Member
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    Start an activity on your Garmin, to record your workout. Let everything sync as normal.

    Gosh, I feel dumb. I forgot my Garmin had the ability to track anything other than walking and running. Thanks!
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    And as FYI - even if you didn't start a workout - the Garmin account might auto-create a record anyway for viewing the stats during that chunk of time.

    Even if it didn't - the daily calories that come over to MFP to do math with include it anyway.

    It's more for you to be able to look at your workouts and stats for comparison later.

    MFP doesn't need them split out. Fitbit doesn't send workouts to MFP, but the same way, it's in the daily stats.
    No doubling up.

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