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    Fitness Trackers and Body Building

    Posts: 73 Member
    edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
    Does anyone use a fitness tracker to assess their Maintenance, Bulking, and/or Cutting calorie requirements?

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    • Posts: 1,343 Member
      I wear one, but it's in no way accurate when it comes to my actual TDEE.
      It usually reports my daily calorie burns between 2000-2400, but I'm eating 2800+ and maintaining my weight.

      I look at how my body responds at a certain calorie amount and adjust accordingly. If I know I'm maintaining on this amount and wanted to cut, I would simply drop a reasonable amount of calories, monitor my body's response, and adjust accordingly.
    • Posts: 4,658 Member
      I used to think that my FitBit was fairly accurate at predicting my TDEE however in the last few months I have found that the figure on the FitBit is hugely overestimated.
    • Posts: 73 Member
      trigden1991 wrote: »
      I used to think that my FitBit was fairly accurate at predicting my TDEE however in the last few months I have found that the figure on the FitBit is hugely overestimated.

      Thanks, that's the conclusion I'm coming to as well. I've had a FB for well over 2 years (after I lost 60lbs) and although there's a lot of good things it does for me, accurately calculating my TDEE doesn't appear to be one of them. My average TDEE is approximately 3000 a day according to FB (57 year old male, 195lbs, desk job, 11K steps daily and weights 3x a week), however accurate logging and trendweight is indicating that it overestimates TDEE by around 500 calories. More time will tell for sure.
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