My wife purchased the Apple Watch for all the neat things it does but mostly for it's activity app. She has been very disappointed with the performance of the Activity / Exercise apps. She uses the Digifit app with a Polar heart rate strap to measure her exercise calories while rowing, spinning, HIIT (high intensity interval training), and weight lifting. All these activities are recorded via her heart rate. Her average time spent doing these exercises is 1 hour 15 minutes daily and she averages 700 to 1,000 calories depending on time and intensity for each day.
She has been wearing the Apple Watch, tightly on her wrist concurrently with the Digifit and Polar strap (Polar strap not connected to Watch). Exercise app set to Indoor Cycling for the duration of her exercise period. The average activity calories for the past week per day (as shown on the dashboard) is 394 (all daily activity). Generally Digifit registers an average heart rate of 150 BPM during the exercise period while the Apple Watch also registers 150 BPM. Since all of her exercises do not involve distance calculations it seems unneccessary to be concerned about calibrating with a GPS app.
All this being said, how can she get the Apple Watch to accurately reflect calories burned during her workouts? It is currently only showing about 1/3 of the total for the workout period. All her personal data (height, weight, age) are the same in both the Apple Watch iPhone app and the Digifit app. Additionally, the Kaiser bike digital readouts show 500 calories just for the indoor cycle ride (no personal data on bike).
She has been wearing the Apple Watch, tightly on her wrist concurrently with the Digifit and Polar strap (Polar strap not connected to Watch). Exercise app set to Indoor Cycling for the duration of her exercise period. The average activity calories for the past week per day (as shown on the dashboard) is 394 (all daily activity). Generally Digifit registers an average heart rate of 150 BPM during the exercise period while the Apple Watch also registers 150 BPM. Since all of her exercises do not involve distance calculations it seems unneccessary to be concerned about calibrating with a GPS app.
All this being said, how can she get the Apple Watch to accurately reflect calories burned during her workouts? It is currently only showing about 1/3 of the total for the workout period. All her personal data (height, weight, age) are the same in both the Apple Watch iPhone app and the Digifit app. Additionally, the Kaiser bike digital readouts show 500 calories just for the indoor cycle ride (no personal data on bike).