iPhone Steps vs Entered Exercises

danielwmarino
danielwmarino Posts: 1
edited November 10 in Getting Started
I have attached my iPhone 6 steps to myfitnesspal. This adjusts calories based on my activity for the day. But then I go for a run which I would manual enter. This is also calculated in the iPhone steps.

My question, does myfitnesspal, take that run into account and adjusts the calories earned per day based on iPhone steps? Or am I getting double the milage by having my steps calculated and adding my run?

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  • peeaanuut
    peeaanuut Posts: 359 Member
    I have been wondering this same question and can never find an answer.
  • JoyeII
    JoyeII Posts: 240 Member
    I've wondered the same. I'm afraid of the double counting so, I leave my phone behind when I run and bring my iPod instead. But I'd prefer to bring my phone :)
  • daynierqwalarcon200
    daynierqwalarcon200 Posts: 5
    Yes MyFitnessPal automatically takes your steps based on your Iphone and updates the calories.
  • regina
    regina Posts: 1 Member
    It doesn't seem to calculate the calories correctly. Prior to my iOS health app connection my daily walk would calculate to 230 calories. The same walk automatically calculated with MFP taking the steps from the health app is only 80. That to me is a huge discrepancy.
  • robyn402014
    robyn402014 Posts: 2 Member
    I use runkeeper to log my runs and it carries over calorie burn to MFP that is in the ballpark of what my heart rate monitor reads so I pretty much trust it. The additional calories now added from iphone 6's app are always much lower, which makes me think that they are designed to be a "true up" rather than pure duplication, but I don't trust it and I've decided to disable it.
  • whipitwhipitgood
    whipitwhipitgood Posts: 1 Member
    i am having a hard time understanding the explanations online about synced apps and iPhone step counter duplications. I hope you may be able to help. I'm trying to determine if I log a run in Runkeeper app, and my steps are logged from my iPhone, will these duplicate each other? I want to record steps and exercise, but I don't want to see that I have 600 extra calories from a run and my steps when really it only should be 300.

    For example, I logged 2 exercises with Runkeeper yesterday and my step total was close to 10,000. My runs were just over 200 and just under 200 calories. My step total was around 200 calories. It didn't seem like 10,000 steps above what I logged with Runkeeper, but maybe it was. It didn't seem like I should have burned an additional 200 calories from walking alone, and seemed that the Runkeeper calories weren't factored into the phone step tracker calories. Are the steps in Runkeeper workouts included in my step total? Help me understand.

    Thanks!

    I don't even know how to ask this question intelligently.
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