Garmin Connect Active Calories

Slowgraffiti12

Hi,

I'm new to the app and website and generally really enjoying. My question regards the Garmin connect activities.

Cronometer imports the entire calories for an activity. For example my session today has been imported as -716 Calories. However this is made up of both Active and resting calories, the resting already being accounted for in my RHR. For example only 645 of the calories today were active, and the other 71 resting.

Garmin then imports a 'Daily Activity' line which adds any further activity i have done just walking around in my day to day life.

If i had done (for eg) 100 calories extra activity, this correctly imports 29 calories, which is the 100 i did minus the 71 resting part from the activity.

However, if i do less than the 71 accounted for already in the activity, i would want the 'Daily activity' to really be a minus number, but it seems to just stay at 0. (this is basically every day at the moment as I am locked down where we are and only allowed that one exercise a day)

Could you confirm how it is best to deal with this? I have just been doing a lot of manual adjustment and sums as things stand, but assume there is a way to just get everything from Garmin? or only the active number and not activities?

Sorry this is not very succinct; i have found it hard to make it all make sense. It may still not!

kind regards

patrick1

I'm surprised it's been three years with no response to this. I just started using Cronometer and noticed this issue right away.

Today, Garmin has figured 2,617 kcal activate, 501 kcal resting, and 3,118 kcal total.

However, Cronometer pulled in the whole 3,118 kcal.

So now Cronometer would have overshoot me my goal by 501 kcal.

Can anyone from the Cronometer team comment on this?

Krakatoa

Pinging on this. My partner and I both use Garmin and cronometer and we noticed that resting calories are being imported for daily activities thus double counting RMR calories for some period, albeit for that activity only. Note that this is only happening to the non recorded daily activity energy (i.e. steps and general movement) not a recorded activity like running or cycling. Can someone at Cronometer fix this please? There needs to be an option to ignore resting calories or include all resting calories.

Thanks.

thistle_dave

I have a Fitbit and it brings over the generic activity, assume you have your baseline activity set to no activity in crono. You can also turn off the TEF related to food digestion. Still burning calories even doing "nothing".

patrick1

@thistle_dave what??

thistle_dave

Garmin tracks resting calories, which represent the energy your body uses while at rest to support basic functions like breathing and circulation. These calories are calculated using an estimate of your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) and are separate from active calories burned during exercise.
How Resting Calories are Calculated: Based on RMR:
Garmin uses an estimate of your RMR, which is determined by factors like age, height, weight, and gender.
Slight Increase: The calculated resting calories are slightly increased from the RMR to account for sedentary to light movement throughout the day.
Includes Basic Functions: These calories include the energy needed for breathing, circulation, maintaining body temperature, and other essential bodily processes.

Cronometer More > Targets - Profile
Energy Expenditure - Select your preferences to determine the amount of energy you burn daily.
Baseline Activity - Sedentary (or other choices)
This setting will be replaced throughout the day with imported activity when you connect an App or Device.
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) -x,xxx kcal, the amount of energy that a person needs to keep the body functioning when at rest.

Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) - Your energy burned will factor in the energy required for food digestion.

Today's Energy Overview Expenditure
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
ADD Baseline Activity
ADD Exercise - added when logged
ADD Tracker Activity - added when logged
ADD Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) - added when logged

patrick1

@thistle_dave okay... I'm sure those are all facts. However, I don't know what point you're making or how you're addressing what anyone else in the thread has said.

thistle_dave

The OP does not want the resting activity to be imported. The BMR is just being alive, the resting activity is anything housework, yard work, shopping, etc. so I believe both programs are measuring a calorie burn no matter how small from that undefined activity. I get it have Cronometer not import the resting amount. I don’t know the OP end goal just track exercise then maybe just use garmin info but to track inputs versus outputs the miscellany stuff has to be recognized?
Do agree that fundamentally we are talking in a vacuum because there is no product pathway for free or paid versions, just users talking into the wind.