Walk - Hill Workout, Walk verses Hike - Hills - Hiking, Light or No Pack

mkrowe0
mkrowe0 Posts: 3 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I have a 5 mile route around my rural hillside home that includes a lot of up and down with some 800 feet of elevation change. Most of the route is gravel road and I generally do it about an hour and a half. Under what activity should I log it? The two that seem most relevant are Walk - Hill Workout, Walk or Hike - Hills - Hiking, Light or No Pack. There seems to be little or no difference in the descriptions, but there is a big difference in the calories reported to be burned. For my stats (age, weight, ...) the Walk - Hill Workout burns 463 calories, while the Hike - Hills, Light or No Pack burns 893 calories.

BTW, all of the Walk and Run variations report 463 calories burned regardless of type of walk or run unless I am pushing a stroller, and all of the hiking variations report 893 calories burned regardless of type unless I am rock climbing or carrying a pack. The hills don't seem to matter in the calorie burn calculation, but they sure do matter in amount of work/effort expended. My fitbit credits me with over 70 flights of stairs for the route.

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    You are walking this hills right? I would never take the higher burn option unless it is exactly what I performed.

    For all the reasons you described this why MFP expects you to only eat back a portion of these exercise calories from the database It has no idea the effort and energy expended and is a best guess. Really no calculator is 100% accurate, not even heart monitors (but is better than nothing)..

    Did you by chance turn the fitbit exercise activity on when you did the exercise? Curious what it gave you for steps/calorie burn?
  • mkrowe0
    mkrowe0 Posts: 3 Member
    Fitbit gave me a 748 calorie burn. Somewhat closer to the hiking category's 893 over the walking category's 463.
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