How to get positive exercise calorie credit from BOTH my daily steps and my daily cardio workouts.

ljlcolorado
ljlcolorado Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
How do I set up MFP to include BOTH my cardio workouts (manually entered) and my IPhone daily step count (sync from Apple Heath). I often hike and do yoga on the same day. My current settings seem to BACK OUT my daily steps count from my exercise log even though I have negative adjustment DISABLED. Not sure why this is even an option because why would someone NOT what to get credit for daily hike (step count) and daily yoga (cardio) workouts. I’ve read through lots of posts (all pretty old) and read the FAQ,and watch YT videos about negative adjustment but nothing seems to address my requirement to get positive credit from both my steps and my cardio workouts. Thank you.

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,238 Member
    There used to be an apple integration bug where the more you were active the less calories you got 🤷‍♂️

    that said I would personally only track activity on the device and calories consumed on mfp.

    so in your scenario manual activity would go on apple.

    Integration logic used to be fairly simple.

    Regardless of what MFP was expecting you to burn based on your chosen activity levels, your day ends up with the MFP caloric expenditure number adjusted to what the tracker believed your tdee was for the day. Tdee not individual exercises. And the value update/replacement is done via an exercise adjustment.

    To my mind caloric intake logged on MFP and caloric expenditure logged on device (and then transferred to MFP) is the cleanest/most easy to figure out way to navigate.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,228 Member
    Before I had a wrist device (not an iOS product), I used my iPhone to track steps. I found it pretty inaccurate. I have a wrist device that seems to be much more accurate for steps, and I can also use it to track activities like hiking, cycling, and swimming. I haven't used iHealth in years, and I don't even remember if you can input activities. If so, what @pav888 said makes sense.

    If I go for a hike, my device tracks my steps as well as estimated calorie burn from my hike. When it syncs to MFP, it backs off the calories from steps that occurred during my hike so they aren't double-counted. I'm quite happy with how it performs.

    Can you just use a stopwatch to time your hike and enter that? It's based on time and weight only, so won't be as accurate as a dedicated tracking device. If I do some activity that I can't track, like SCUBA, I don't even get step credit until I earn enough to make a difference.

  • Lildarlinz
    Lildarlinz Posts: 276 Member
    Click on more then steps and it will ask you to add a device :)

    Mine is just steps at the moment :)
    It’s probably not 100% accurate but I get a rough picture of how many steps I’m doing
    I did around 19,000 yesterday but I had a really busy day at work :D

    It’s connected or synced to my health app on my iPhone :) hope this helps x

    Not sure on cardio though :) I used to use a Fitbit with my work outs :) but not sure that’s as accurate :) x

    Happy hiking :) x

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