Is it just me or does the Apple Watch over estimate the hell out of my activity?

[Ghost31]

Sometimes I really wonder how accurate the calorie tracking is. I was a lazy couch potato yesterday. I may as well have had no legs because I didn’t use them hardly at all yesterday. I was home and lazy. But my Apple Watch says I burned…a light to moderate exercise levels worth of calories. Shouldn’t I have counted as sedentary?

I input my info into a tdee calculator and yeah. I feel like I’m at minimum a few hundred calories higher than I should be. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe what I’m doing counts as more activity since the watch can track more of it along with my heart rate. What do you guys think? What’s your experience been?

 

[NARadyk]

I have always wondered how accurate calorie burning is on the Apple Watch so I will keep a keen eye on this thread.

(Sorry I don’t really have any input on this though).

 

[ukms]

Sometimes I really wonder how accurate the calorie tracking is. I was a lazy couch potato yesterday. I may as well have had no legs because I didn’t use them hardly at all yesterday. I was home and lazy. But my Apple Watch says I burned…a light to moderate exercise levels worth of calories. Shouldn’t I have counted as sedentary?

I input my info into a tdee calculator and yeah. I feel like I’m at minimum a few hundred calories higher than I should be. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe what I’m doing counts as more activity since the watch can track more of it along with my heart rate. What do you guys think? What’s your experience been?

You burn calories even if you do absolutely nothing and AW still tracks that.

 

[Ghost31]

You burn calories even if you do absolutely nothing and AW still tracks that.

I accounted for basal metabolic rate. As you can see in the pictures. I’m talking about activity levels after that

 

[ukms]

I accounted for basal metabolic rate. As you can see in the pictures. I’m talking about activity levels after that

I’ll be honest …… what youve just said here makes no sense to me in conjunction with the images you’ve posted. But perhaps it’s just me.

 

[Spindel]

Seems strange if I get a day with an activity level similar to what you show (400-500 kcal) my AW will say that my daily total is around 2500 kcal that is pretty much spot on for my body weight (85 kg)

 

[Ghost31]

I’ll be honest …… what youve just said here makes no sense to me in conjunction with the images you’ve posted. But perhaps it’s just me.

I was a lazy potato. I had zero activity on that day but the calorie burn matches activity of a day I’d get much more exercise.

rocket science

 

[NARadyk]

You burn calories even if you do absolutely nothing and AW still tracks that.

But this is active calories? Which is what the screenshot shows.

There is a way to view the standard calories burnt a day that are separate to active calories but I can’t remember how at the minute as I’ve just woke up. 🥱

 

[ukms]

I was a lazy potato. I had zero activity on that day but the calorie burn matches activity of a day I’d get much more exercise.

rocket science

I fully get that but your last comment wasn’t clear (to me) …..

You’ve taken one day in isolation but how do other days stack up against your chart ?

It looks like you’ve at least moved a little as your stand goal is closed and exceeded (whatever the goal was). You’ve missed the breakdown from your screen clip.