Exercise and smartwatch

NGeesaman20
NGeesaman20 Posts: 48 Member
edited November 22 in Fitness and Exercise
On days you exercise do you track both your exercises and your smartwatch calories burned with MFP or just the smartwatch calories burned?

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  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    My smart watch talks to my bike and reads information about how much torque and angular velocity I put into the pedals, then forwards the results to MFP.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    I've been using the Apple Watch 3 for a couple of weeks now - anything I log as an exercise is calculated and passed onto MFP, as well as a daily step adjustment. Almost all of my exercise is walking or running, so it's pretty straightforward and accurate.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    I use AW also and am fairly sedentary outside of planned exercise so I only count workout cals above the base cals MFP gives me. Once in a rare while I will add cals from yard work or housework if it was particularly vigorous and I took the trouble to note what the AW said I burned in the period.
  • NGeesaman20
    NGeesaman20 Posts: 48 Member
    I'm fairly seditary most days. However I started doing some exercise 3 times a week. Most days I just count what my watch gives me because I know I put in a little extra to make my daily goals. But on those days I workout I dont know if I should just go by my watch or my watch plus mfp.
  • NGeesaman20
    NGeesaman20 Posts: 48 Member
    On a side note my watch won't link to mfp
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    NHann2017 wrote: »
    On a side note my watch won't link to mfp

    Sorry if you've done this already, but I was having trouble too until I made sure I'd 1) added the watch/iphone under steps on MFP, 2) added MFP to the sources list of apple's health app, and 3) installed MFP on the watch.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    It's not your Watch that links, it's the Apple Health app.
  • NGeesaman20
    NGeesaman20 Posts: 48 Member
    I don't use Apple watch I have an Aneken. It uses an app that doesn't link to mfp.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    Oh sorry, my bad.
  • NGeesaman20
    NGeesaman20 Posts: 48 Member
    It's ok
  • AmberGebell
    AmberGebell Posts: 113 Member
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    I use AW also and am fairly sedentary outside of planned exercise so I only count workout cals above the base cals MFP gives me. Once in a rare while I will add cals from yard work or housework if it was particularly vigorous and I took the trouble to note what the AW said I burned in the period.

    What do you mean you only count workout calories? Yesterday my resting calories were 1629 and my active calories were 800. MyFitnessPal gives me a goal of 1500 and it only gave me 200 extra exercise calories to MyFitnessPal and I walked 15,000 steps yesterday. I am new too Apple Watch it’s the second day and Fitbit gave me a lot more exercise calories back
  • KarenSmith2018
    KarenSmith2018 Posts: 302 Member
    My watch tracks my steps and general activity as well as specific excerise activity. It will upload the specific excerise activity calories plus any additional I have burned above and beyond the basic 1600 that MFP deems is my maintenance calories. I eat all the calories it says i should eat give or plus a few because we can't always be spot on every day.
  • AmberGebell
    AmberGebell Posts: 113 Member
    karenbeckwith5 wrote: »
    My watch tracks my steps and general activity as well as specific excerise activity. It will upload the specific excerise activity calories plus any additional I have burned above and beyond the basic 1600 that MFP deems is my maintenance calories. I eat all the calories it says i should eat give or plus a few because we can't always be spot on every day. [/quote

    Yes I am just confused because it gives many less exercise calories then Fitbit did so I am really trying to understand it xejly25cy4at.png
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  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    AmberGebell wrote: »
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    I use AW also and am fairly sedentary outside of planned exercise so I only count workout cals above the base cals MFP gives me. Once in a rare while I will add cals from yard work or housework if it was particularly vigorous and I took the trouble to note what the AW said I burned in the period.

    What do you mean you only count workout calories? Yesterday my resting calories were 1629 and my active calories were 800. MyFitnessPal gives me a goal of 1500 and it only gave me 200 extra exercise calories to MyFitnessPal and I walked 15,000 steps yesterday. I am new too Apple Watch it’s the second day and Fitbit gave me a lot more exercise calories back

    I mean if AW has ticked by 100 calories while I sit and do email or eat lunch or whatever during the day, I don't count those as calories expended to eat back. I only count purposeful exercise calories from workouts in addition to my base calories from MFP, as I assume those 100 are in that base. I lost 40lbs and am keeping it off 6 months now with this setup.
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