Apple Watch Calories vs Eliptical Calories

k_renee24
k_renee24 Posts: 7 Member
edited November 29 in Getting Started
Hey all. This has probably been asked before but I couldn’t find an answer when I searched the threads so here goes:

What tends to be more accurate, the calories that my Apple Watch tells me I burn doing an exercise (30 minutes on the eliptical) versus what the eliptical says? I’m very new to exercise and, although I’m not tracking it in MFP, I’m just really curious what I’m actually burning.

My watch told me I burned 391 calories and the eliptical said I burned 252. That’s quite the dramatic difference! Any ideas?

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  • jaelynnp
    jaelynnp Posts: 6 Member
    Well your watch would have all your info like weight and heart rate. The amount of calories you can burn during exercise depend on those things. I would say your Apple Watch is more accurate
  • annaskiski
    annaskiski Posts: 1,212 Member
    Did the watch say that your active calories are 391, or total calories.

    Total calories include the calories you would have burned sitting on the couch eating pizza.
    Active calories are the additional calories you burned by performing exercise.

    If you have MFP set to 'sedentary', you would eat back the active calories.
  • k_renee24
    k_renee24 Posts: 7 Member
    annaskiski wrote: »
    Did the watch say that your active calories are 391, or total calories.

    The 391 is active calories. My total calories are in the upper 400s.
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