Question on exercise/step tracking

zfrh62wnxb
zfrh62wnxb Posts: 2 Member
in MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions
I’ve read the articles and as many discussions as possible, but want to make sure I understand it and have a few questions. I have my Apple Watch and iPhone health app synced to MFP. It is successfully importing exercises and steps into MFP. I completed a run and was credited for both exercise calories and steps. When I completed a cycling ride (with same calorie expenditure as my run), I was credited with just the exercise calories, but no steps. Am I receiving additional calories because of the steps added in my run?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,166 Member
    IMU, the Apple interface is a little bit fraught (because of how Apple implemented it).

    Generically for fitness trackers in MFP IMU, by the end of the day the calorie adjustment in MFP will reflect the totality of your activity: Steps, workouts, other daily life movement the tracker can detect. It should not be double counting.

    The calorie adjustment won't necessarily be the same numbers as your exercise or steps calories on the tracker side, because the adjustment reconciles MFP's expectation of your daily calorie burn (based on profile settings) with the calorie burn the tracker saw/estimated. Since the MFP assumption already includes some activity calories (even set at sedentary), the total adjustment generally won't match the exercise calories the fitness tracker reports.

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