Apple Watch increase calories

[TorontoSS]

Hello! I’ve had an Apple Watch, some generation or the other since 2015. Right now I have a s10 Hermes version and recently, the last 2-3 months I’ve had some really really high Move/Calorie scores. I notice all of my workouts are registering higher calories burned and “power” than just 2 months ago. If I look at a 5k run on January 1st, I burned 327calories or somehting like that. Today I ran 5k and I burned 427 calories. The avg power /calories on Jan 1 and earlier (and for years) was always consistent at around say 160.

Now fast forward 2 months later and there have been weird hormonal things happening in my body (I’m a woman in my 40s). But I wouldn’t have expected the watch to pick this up because my heart rate hasn’t’ gone up significantly. But the calorie count etc has.

Could this be an issue with the watch acting up? Or the watch picking up something?

It’s hard to tell. I did try to get a diagnostic done on the watch about 2 weeks ago. But it was from home and they don’t really have Apple Store appointments for this stuff anymore and it got interrupted. The agent seemed to believe the diagnostic did go through and it’s fine. It could be but hard to tell.

Anyone else with experience or insight?
Thanks!

 

[jz0309]

Hello! I’ve had an Apple Watch, some generation or the other since 2015. Right now I have a s10 Hermes version and recently, the last 2-3 months I’ve had some really really high Move/Calorie scores. I notice all of my workouts are registering higher calories burned and “power” than just 2 months ago. If I look at a 5k run on January 1st, I burned 327calories or somehting like that. Today I ran 5k and I burned 427 calories. The avg power /calories on Jan 1 and earlier (and for years) was always consistent at around say 160.

Now fast forward 2 months later and there have been weird hormonal things happening in my body (I’m a woman in my 40s). But I wouldn’t have expected the watch to pick this up because my heart rate hasn’t’ gone up significantly. But the calorie count etc has.

Could this be an issue with the watch acting up? Or the watch picking up something?

It’s hard to tell. I did try to get a diagnostic done on the watch about 2 weeks ago. But it was from home and they don’t really have Apple Store appointments for this stuff anymore and it got interrupted. The agent seemed to believe the diagnostic did go through and it’s fine. It could be but hard to tell.

Anyone else with experience or insight?
Thanks!

for all I know AW calculates your calories burnt based on heart rate, pace and your personal info (eg gender, age, weight).
I also seem to recall that Apple modified the algorithm a few times over the years on some watchOS versions (can't remember any details).
Are you suing the "outdoor run" workout, the standard Apple one?
while you say your heart rate hasn't gone up significantly you should check your average heart rate for those workouts and compare
I do the same workout every day (16 miles indoor cycling) and I see my calories burnt between like 340 to sometimes over 400) but it corresponds to my heart rate, give or take.

As for the diagnostics, they can do that fully remote, it's no different than going into a store afaik