intelligent mobile run AND walk tracking
Springerrr
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Is there an app out there which can deduce from your speed whether you are running or walking and assign calories accordingly? It could even be part of the settings (e.g. if I am going faster than 3.5 MPH, then I am running. If it is slower, then I am walking).
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Google fit on any Android phone does that.1
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Many of the Fitbit models do that.0
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Probably any watch/tracker from Garmin, Fitbit, Polar, or Apple. Also I suspect the Strava's app would do so.1
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Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »Google fit on any Android phone does that.
Checked out the app. Suddenly no one likes the current version!0 -
Springerrr wrote: »
Try out Strava.0 -
Springerrr wrote: »Is there an app out there which can deduce from your speed whether you are running or walking and assign calories accordingly? It could even be part of the settings (e.g. if I am going faster than 3.5 MPH, then I am running. If it is slower, then I am walking).
You can also work on a quite simple 1 mile = 100 calories. This isn't precise but then again no activity tracker/heart rate monitor etc will ever give you a totally precise number of calories burnt.
But it doesn't matter if you run a 4 minute mile or take 20 mins to walk it. You will have burnt roughly the same amount of calories.
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Springerrr wrote: »Is there an app out there which can deduce from your speed whether you are running or walking and assign calories accordingly? It could even be part of the settings (e.g. if I am going faster than 3.5 MPH, then I am running. If it is slower, then I am walking).
You can also work on a quite simple 1 mile = 100 calories. This isn't precise but then again no activity tracker/heart rate monitor etc will ever give you a totally precise number of calories burnt.
But it doesn't matter if you run a 4 minute mile or take 20 mins to walk it. You will have burnt roughly the same amount of calories.
Bold isn't true - calories per mile are roughly double if run rather than walked.
(Running is twice as inefficient a movement as you waste energy bounding upwards.)1
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