Suunto Spartan Sport Really high calories burned

sartoric · 19 Sept 2019, 22:24

@Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright
There are several discussion about this topic

https://forum.suunto.com/search?term=high calories&in=titlesposts&matchWords=all&sortBy=relevance&sortDirection=desc&showAs=posts

It could be wrong, it could be right … it’s hard to say

Do you have the latest firmware ? There was a bug in “hourly” calories consumption calculation that (probably) affected the activity calories evaluation too

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 19 Sept 2019, 22:31

Yes, I have the latest firmware updated. But I guess I’ll look at that thread and see what other people are saying. I just wanted something that relatively accurate. I’m counting calories that I eat and have a limit on things I can eat in a day. Having a workout that says 400 calories burned is a huge difference from 800 calories burned. That’s almost adding another meal for me.

Saketo Nemo · 20 Sept 2019, 07:16

the calories are mainly affected by the heartbeat. The FC belt shows reliable values? Are your zones set correctly?

suzzlo · 20 Sept 2019, 15:01

Did you set correctly your age and weight?

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:03

Yes to all the questions. I even did a factory reset on it, but nothing changed. Did a light run today and couldn’t believe the number of calories it says I burned. I have all the information in the watch correct.
Male
212lb
5’10"
Birth Year 1992

My zones are set up as well
Zone 5: 193 (100%)-182(94%) (182 is my lactate threshold)
4: 182 -174 (90%) (I use this zone for HIIT workouts
3: 174 - 165 (85%) (Most of my running lives here)
2: 165 - 154 (79%) (This is the lower zone for workouts)
1: 154 and below (My taking it easy zone)

I’ll have to find a way to post the results of my workout today. But in short, I ran mainly in zone 1 and 2 (I did HIIT yesterday, so taking it easy today). I ran just over 2 miles, average HR was 145. Seems like not a lot of calories burned, right? 691! How did I burn that many calories when many other watches are telling me that I only burned 400 calories when I really push myself on a 2-mile run? This was an easy run. I don’t understand. I use the wrist HR on the watch, which sometimes tells me that it’s not optimized, but today it didn’t give me any message like that. Meaning that the watch was functioning correctly. The HR it was displaying felt correct. I don’t know how I could burn over 600 calories over an easy 2-mile run. Over the last week, I’ve had to cut my calories burned in half just to put into Lifesum. There’s gotta be something wrong with the algorithm, not to mention that the step counter counts everything as a step. But I’m not too worried about that because I don’t care about daily steps anyway. I’ll find a way to post my most recent run to show you all. Sorry that this message is so long, I’m just super frustrated.

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:08

http://movescount.com/moves/move308339398#

Let me know if that link works.

johann.fuehrer · 21 Sept 2019, 01:10

@Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright I tried it right now, did NOT work.

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:11

Anyone know how to share a move from movecount?

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:13

johann.fuehrer · 21 Sept 2019, 01:13

@Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright said in Suunto Spartan Sport Really high calories burned:

Anyone know how to share a move from movecount?

Hi. Please check in the movescount settings the privacy stuff. If you have it on pripate, your not able to share IMHO.

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:15

I just changed it to public

johann.fuehrer · 21 Sept 2019, 01:17

@Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright said in Suunto Spartan Sport Really high calories burned:

I just changed it to public

That did it, I see your workout now in Movescount. Which does not mean I can answer your question

johann.fuehrer · 21 Sept 2019, 01:21

@johann-fuehrer I’ve checked this with some calorie calculators and I agree with you: this values are way to high, it should be somewhere in the 450 range (with some spread of course)

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:29

Here’s a screenshot of an older workout I did with my Garmin watch last year. This run was UPHILL and my average HR was over 160. How many calories burned? 551.

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:31

Here from a very similar run. The same route, only I ran harder. Calories burned is 434.

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 01:39

Sorry the photos are so big

johann.fuehrer · 21 Sept 2019, 01:47

@Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright said in Suunto Spartan Sport Really high calories burned:

Sorry the photos are so big

No Problem (I think). These runs look ok, especially the first were you also had some altitude to manage. Maybe, if the other guys did wake up here in Europe, you’ll get some better answers

A Former User · 21 Sept 2019, 04:16

Is your rest HR setup correctly in the watch?

Also, are you HR zones and max HR are setup in the watch in addition to Movescount? I am pretty sure Spartan and newer Suunto watches don’t use HR zones from Movescount. Instead HR zones must be setup directly on the watch (which I personally think was a bad design decision).

Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright · 21 Sept 2019, 06:10

My rest HR is set to 60, which I feel is correct unless there’s a way to test it lol.

I also set everything up on the watch before connecting it to the new Suunto app. I later connected it to movecount. So all the personal information and HR zones are all set up through the watch

suzzlo · 21 Sept 2019, 06:13

Another chech.:

As far as you may know, there are default and advanced zones for running and cycling. So in these type of activities, advanced zones are used…