Calorie Discrepancies Between Devices

wallelf1

I did an experiment this morning when I took my walk. I wore my Fitbit, and had MapMyWalk. I also wore a Mio Sport HRM. The walk I take is 2.8 miles with a 61 foot gain; there are two killer hills on this trek, so it’s a pretty good workout for me. I accomplished the round trip in 01:01:25.

Fitbit gave me 258 calories burned
MapMyWalk gave me 364
and the Mio gave me 785 ~laughs hysterically~

I put a new battery in the Mio yesterday and entered the gender/weight, etc. I had hoped to use it to track calories on the rebounder (instead of using the Fitbit), but now I think I’m going to have to figure out a different way to log the rebounder time. Any suggestions?

funchords

Body sensor results are the new vanity sizing.

I compared walks using MapMyFitness and RunKeeper and found that RunKeeper was more conservative with the calories. But, I think that unless you are testing calorie burn under lab conditions, we're always going to be subject to someone's estimator.