tracking your run

Juniejune236
Juniejune236 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Im relatively new to myfitness pal. I have an iPhone and an iwatch, which was bought specifically to track runs. Do you enter the runs as you do them as well as your device tracking your daily steps or is this double counting ? advice appreciated - thanks

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  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
    When you enter a run, it asks you what time you started the activity. I believe the purpose of this is so MFP does NOT double-count that activity if you also have a tracker synced. So as long as you make sure to accurately input your run start time, it should not double count.
  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    Don't forget your phone when you run. The Apple watch is notoriously inaccurate without the phone.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    If you enter and sync your watch you will be double counting. Try using the MapMyRun app on your phone and set up a few routes at different distances and track calories. 3, 5m, 10 miles. Once you have those down and know the calories you can let your watch take over and make corrections as needed.
  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,138 Member
    I use MapMyRun and then just delete any calorie adjustment I get for steps. I like to track my steps just so I can see how active I am (or am not) but I don't need the calorie reduction in MFP for them. I usually don't eat back exercise calories too often anyway...
  • pztodd
    pztodd Posts: 102 Member
    brian_gunther wrote: »
    I use MapMyRun and then just delete any calorie adjustment I get for steps. I like to track my steps just so I can see how active I am (or am not) but I don't need the calorie reduction in MFP for them. I usually don't eat back exercise calories too often anyway...

    I use MapMyRun and I get that calorie adjustment come through into MFP but it has a zero value in it so I ignore it. Should I not be doing that?
  • AdventureGirlCD
    AdventureGirlCD Posts: 8 Member
    I use RunKeeper and it syncs with MFP - works great except I need to bring my phone with me when I run. I use a flip belt - so not so horrible but I'm looking for a good watch that is a stand alone - unfortunately the best ones ( I hear are the higher end garmins) are very expensive and since I like what Run Keeper does - not sure I want to invest the dollars..
  • mommarnurse
    mommarnurse Posts: 515 Member
    My life's never been the same since I got my Garmin.
  • JinjoJoey
    JinjoJoey Posts: 106 Member
    mommarnurse wrote: »
    My life's never been the same since I got my Garmin.

    Same here. Six months ago when I first got it, I can't say I could attest to its accuracy but I've consistently lost weight every week since I bought it, including eating back quite a few exercise calories, so I have to assume with the step tracker and GPS, its pretty accurate.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    mommarnurse wrote: »
    My life's never been the same since I got my Garmin.

    Yep!
  • curlsintherack
    curlsintherack Posts: 465 Member
    I have the polar m400 because I had a bluetooth heart rate monitor already and the garmin units use ant+. The polar does daily activity tracking as well.

    The watches are going to be more accurate than your phone or even the apple watch as they have a better gps chip that does not use assisted gps through your cellular tower.

    I gained 3/10s of a mile on runkeeper over a 3 mile run with the polar watch. If you looked at the maps the runkeeper gps had me veered off into the woods or peoples houses as my phone would pick up their wifi and use that known location as a gps location. Also it was giving me speed and distance I did not deserve I knew I wasn't running sub 10 minute miles but runkeeper said I was.
  • CincyNeid
    CincyNeid Posts: 1,249 Member
    mommarnurse wrote: »
    My life's never been the same since I got my Garmin.

    QFT. I was using Wahoo Fitness's Fitness tracker to record my data on my runs since my Wahoo Tickr Run would keep things like HR, Cadence and smoothness. But my first 10K the app crashed about 1/2 through. I promptly picked up a Forerunner 220 and it has changed my running life.

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