Calorie burn is way off

[Akrapovic]

That's the strangest part. At the moment, I have credit for 6 minutes of Exercise even though my highest HR reading for the day so far is 72. Based on the time, that was walking up three flights of steps from my parking garage this morning. It looks like I received 2 minutes of Exercise credit for that. I received one minute of credit two times before that at home and twice since in the office this morning. It doesn't take much more than walking around with a HR in the 60's to get exercise credit.

But I'm at only 187/1,000 active calories (979 total calories).

For sure the exercise ring is easy to get moving a bit. Here's mine from today to illustrate how easy it is.

The red arrow in the morning. The first 2 blips are me drying my hair. I have relatively long hair (can be put in a man bun), and I rub my hair quite vigorously with a towel. That, whilst wearing the watch, counts as exercise. I then left the house a minute or so afterwards and carried the full bin bag down down the steps of my flat and out to the bin. third and fourth blips are at work, walking to the coffee machine (healthy!). Final blip (yellow) is walking up the stairs again to my flat.

If you walk at a decent pace then you'll get exercise minutes. My average walking heart rate is 65, which is obviously decent enough, and it still counts it as exercise.

The grey WorkOutDoors addition are lunch time run of 50 minutes (plus 2-3 minutes walk cool down).

 

[killr_b]

My resting HR is ~58, my working is ~72, my max workout rate is ~140. I know those numbers are on the lowest side for my age/stats because I'm fairly athletic, but I don't seem to get excercise credit. I didn't even get excercise credit for playing golf lol

I haven't exactly figured out the workout app, so I'm still working on that. I usually end up scheduling meetings during my workout time so I don't get all my days in...

No other health related apps installed. I keep my phone pretty basic. Nothing on the watch.

On a couple calculators I get Basal Metabolic Rate of ~2,200 and a Calorie needs rate of ~3,700.
I never eat 3,700 Calories. Ever. If I eat over 2,600 (holiday season ~3,200) I will gain weight if I don't stick to workouts.

 

[rgyiv]

Yeah, I didn't get credit for exercise when I golfed last Saturday, so when I golfed on Sunday I started an "Other" workout and got a ton of credit....